Locomotive appliances . Fig. 3The Mudd Track Sander. (Side YiouO 468 LOCOMOTIVE APPLIANCES. engineers valves should be one-quarter inch copperpipe, and placed under the jacket. There should be placed in the top of the sand box,as shown in Fig. 1, a one-quarter inch mesh nettingto insure screened sand at all times. The back-up sander should be placed directly overthe forward delivery apparatus, and as near thebottom of the box as it is possible to get it. The air pressure should be taken from the reservoirpipe attached to the engineers valve. PNEUMATIC TOOLS AND THEIR USE FORLOCOMOTIVE WORK. Th
Locomotive appliances . Fig. 3The Mudd Track Sander. (Side YiouO 468 LOCOMOTIVE APPLIANCES. engineers valves should be one-quarter inch copperpipe, and placed under the jacket. There should be placed in the top of the sand box,as shown in Fig. 1, a one-quarter inch mesh nettingto insure screened sand at all times. The back-up sander should be placed directly overthe forward delivery apparatus, and as near thebottom of the box as it is possible to get it. The air pressure should be taken from the reservoirpipe attached to the engineers valve. PNEUMATIC TOOLS AND THEIR USE FORLOCOMOTIVE WORK. There is undoubtedly a dividing line between toolsand appliances used on a locomotive and those used inbuilding and repairing locomotives, yet it cannot failto interest practical railroad men if this volume con-veys some idea of the various uses of pneumatic tools,. Fig: 1. Pneumatic Hammer, Strikes to 7,000 Blows Per Minute. (Weight, Various Sizes, 5 to 9 Pounds.) used in almost every railroad shop and roundhouse inthe United States to-day. The engravings herein will tell the story of usefulness and expediency of the various pneumatictools shown more explicitly than any Lengthy descrip-tion thereof, i (469) 470 LOCOMOTIVE APPLIANCES.
Size: 1995px × 1252px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectlocomot, bookyear1901
