. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . corps of the road is unparal-leled, so far as our experience goes, andthe menwillinglyagreed to try it, althoughmost of them asserted that it could not bedone. However, they all started out faith-fully to give the new system a fair trial,and to the astonishment of those most heavy ten-wheeler, and the running con-ditions were to get to the end of the divi-sion as quickly as possible. At first I satin the cupola of the way-car, which gavean excellent vantage point from which towatch not only the engine pu
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . corps of the road is unparal-leled, so far as our experience goes, andthe menwillinglyagreed to try it, althoughmost of them asserted that it could not bedone. However, they all started out faith-fully to give the new system a fair trial,and to the astonishment of those most heavy ten-wheeler, and the running con-ditions were to get to the end of the divi-sion as quickly as possible. At first I satin the cupola of the way-car, which gavean excellent vantage point from which towatch not only the engine pulling thetrain, but all others that we passed or I rode on the engine and watchedhow the firing was done. It was an oldstory to the writer, for he had been ac-customed to the same system of firing inScotland thirty years ago. But ancientpractices with tiny engines had been inthis case extended to our modern mon-sters, and the results were the same,smokeless firing. The road is undulating, with fairlyheavy up and down grades—the worstconditions for smokeless firing—but the.
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