. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . inside connected, as will be seen fromthe crank axle here shown.) I remem-ber the case of these engines particularly,because it meant a lot of extra work forme, as the wheels used to stand in a yardwith a lot of others, both new, stock andrepairs; and often by the time I had indue course worked round to a particularpair of rods, their wheels had got intothe middle of the wheel yard. Then, ifnew brasses were required, I had to goand true up the pins; this meant taking achip (for I never file when I can ch
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . inside connected, as will be seen fromthe crank axle here shown.) I remem-ber the case of these engines particularly,because it meant a lot of extra work forme, as the wheels used to stand in a yardwith a lot of others, both new, stock andrepairs; and often by the time I had indue course worked round to a particularpair of rods, their wheels had got intothe middle of the wheel yard. Then, ifnew brasses were required, I had to goand true up the pins; this meant taking achip (for I never file when I can chip, norscrape where I can file) all round thepin, as shown dotted at 0, afterwards fil-ing and smoothing up witli emery clothand a coiled rope. Mad to be on yourback half the time, perhaps, if the crankshappened to be low down. Not much chance of getting twenty or more pairspulled out so as to be able to roll thewheels round on a skid into a suitableposition. I knew my foreman; hed have said that any d d fool could do a job when everything was just so. When youbear in mind that these p
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