. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . COLBURNS WIDE FIRE BOX ENGINE. FIG. 85. on the Delaware, Lackawanna & West-ern and other railroads. The only ob-jection to the original Colburn fire boxwas that it did not allow for a decentarrangement of coupling the engine tothe tender, and the overhang caused atendency to wobble the engine whilerunning. While I was running the In-vestigator, which had a Colburn firebox, Watts Cooke, the master mechanic,had several talks with me about thisvery matter, and he could not see anyway to overcome
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . COLBURNS WIDE FIRE BOX ENGINE. FIG. 85. on the Delaware, Lackawanna & West-ern and other railroads. The only ob-jection to the original Colburn fire boxwas that it did not allow for a decentarrangement of coupling the engine tothe tender, and the overhang caused atendency to wobble the engine whilerunning. While I was running the In-vestigator, which had a Colburn firebox, Watts Cooke, the master mechanic,had several talks with me about thisvery matter, and he could not see anyway to overcome the long coupling bar. After the present type of fire boxhad been adopted, I was in the shopat Scranton and saw my old friendWilliam Connell, who was then generalforeman. He asked me to go into theboiler shop to see a new kind of boilerthat was being made. On the way wemet James Hughes, foreman of theboiler shop, who said they were mak-ing a new boiler for the Investigator,and that it had the old Colburn styleof fire box without a combustionchamber. Mr. J. Snowden Bell, Patent Attorney ville,
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