. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ontrol theamount of steam admitted to each valveso that each can be varied as is foundnecessary. The casting E replaces the regular fire-door and the curved plate in front is a de-flector which distributes the coal acrossthe width of the firebox. The small door shown, covering the up-per portion of firebox, is to allow inspec-tion of fire and the use of the hook when A Trip with the Kincaid Stoker. It was my good fortune to overtake the371, a Richmond consolidation havingthe stoker or iron fi
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ontrol theamount of steam admitted to each valveso that each can be varied as is foundnecessary. The casting E replaces the regular fire-door and the curved plate in front is a de-flector which distributes the coal acrossthe width of the firebox. The small door shown, covering the up-per portion of firebox, is to allow inspec-tion of fire and the use of the hook when A Trip with the Kincaid Stoker. It was my good fortune to overtake the371, a Richmond consolidation havingthe stoker or iron fireman at Hinton,W. Va., and after a few roundhouse re-pairs we got ready for a start at IT A. time. In the meantime I hadbought a suit of overclothes and a cap—tried to get our friend Peters Brotherhoodoveralls, but couldnt—and was ready tosee what the stoker would do in actualservice. The engine was one of the class knownon the Chesapeake & Ohio road as G6,with cylinders 22 by 28 inches, s6-inchwheels, 71-inch boiler, 35 feet of grate (11feet long lacking a fraction of an inch)..
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