. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . o as to prop-erly do the work that was expected ofit, and in this it somewhat resembledthe invading army which the master ofthe art of war knew was impossible tohandle in the case before him. The Gold Car Heating & LightingCompany of New York have recently so also does the heat which it contain.^.Steam at the boiling point at simpleatmospheric pressure contains 212° F.,while at 2 lbs. pressure it is at a tem-perature of 218° F. Higher pressuresgive higher ranges of temperature; forexample^ 30
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . o as to prop-erly do the work that was expected ofit, and in this it somewhat resembledthe invading army which the master ofthe art of war knew was impossible tohandle in the case before him. The Gold Car Heating & LightingCompany of New York have recently so also does the heat which it contain.^.Steam at the boiling point at simpleatmospheric pressure contains 212° F.,while at 2 lbs. pressure it is at a tem-perature of 218° F. Higher pressuresgive higher ranges of temperature; forexample^ 30 lbs. pressure has a tempera-ture of 272° F. Profiting by the efTortsof others, and working upon this funda-mental principle, the Gold people havedevised a regulator which controls thesteam supply and for that very reasongoverns the temperature in interior ofthe car. Often a coach is compelled to standfor hours in a terminal yard, suppliedwith steam heat, which in order to obvi-ate the necessity of close watching, isturned on to the full. The car becomesgreatly overheated, and all the wood-. FIG. I. SIDE VIEW GOLD IMPROVED TEMPERATURE REGULATOR. come forward with a system of tempera-ture regulation for passenger cars whichmay be described with perfect accuracyas simple and effective. The oldest andmost prevalent way in which tempera-ture was raised or lowered—not regu-lated—in a car, was to let the occupantsshiver while the car slowly gained somewarmth and at last, when it became toohot, a couple of windows or a few decklights would be opened so that a colddraught could pour into one part of thecoach and cause passengers to sneeze andcough and use language which we wouldnot dare to print in the columns ofRailway and Locomotive Gold system of heat regulationis based on a simple scientific fact. Itis that as the pressure of steam rises. work joints and interior finishings arekept in a sort of kiln-dried atmospherewhich does them no good, and when thecar is
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