. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . r withcompressed air would be more cleanand avoid any possibility of failure, ascleanliness of fuel and fracture arevery essential factors in the case. The preparations certainly fill a long-felt want in our case and it seems tome in time they will be as common asborax and be found in every shopwhere repairing is done. Thos. Be.\sley. St. Louis, Mo. Diamond Stacks in the : Having noticed your request in theDecember issue of your paper for pic-tures of diamond stacks on engines inse
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . r withcompressed air would be more cleanand avoid any possibility of failure, ascleanliness of fuel and fracture arevery essential factors in the case. The preparations certainly fill a long-felt want in our case and it seems tome in time they will be as common asborax and be found in every shopwhere repairing is done. Thos. Be.\sley. St. Louis, Mo. Diamond Stacks in the : Having noticed your request in theDecember issue of your paper for pic-tures of diamond stacks on engines inservice, and there being no engines inroad service near here, I have sent youphotographs of yard engines, some ofwhich have been road engines, but allare still in service. No. 1369 C. B. & Q. switch engine,with a diamond stack, is arranged forburning lignite coal (called alfalfahere), which is very light, and whenthe engine is working you can neverget enough in the firebox. The abovenamed company had some of their roadengines fitted up to burn lignite coal,but they were taken oflf, as they could. ENGINE 503 RAILROAD. was sold to some lumber company af-ter being in road service for about 25years. No. SS4 was a Baldwin narrow gaugeroad engine, built for the D. & R. 1880, I think; had an eight-wheeltender, no saddle tank. It was littcdwith the old three-way cock forstraight air, which is still on it. Someyears ago she was changed to standardgauge and used as a switch engine, thenabout three years ago was againchanged as shown, for shop service. No. 8 C. & S. narrow gauge passen-gen engine, used on the famous do not know when she was built, orif she was a Grant or Baldwin, but sheused to have a sunflower stack, same asthe No. 64, which is now changed to astraight stack. There were two styles of stack here,one called the diamond and the othercalled the sunflower stack, which origin-ated on the Union Pacific in the early daysto guard against fire on the are
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