. The locomotive engineer . rip, 47Speed, About Difference In, when Li^ver Is Hooked np, 48 Truck Box Oilers, 10 Track Tanks. How Watwr is Taken, ao Taper In Open Stacks, Use of, 43 Vacuum Brakes, Time Taken to Release, 27 Wood Burner Stack, 7 Weleht of Different Classes of Locomotives, Average, IIWelding Steel Tubes, About, IB Wear of Tire, Why one Wheel or Pair of Wheels WearMore than Othent, SJ•Wedue Boh. Kind U^^ed on P. R. R , SiWear of Tire, Why More near the Pin than Othertvlse, 25What Governs Aclheslon, 5BWhat Governs Action of Triple Valve. 51What Saturated Steam Is. 66 Valve Gear of
. The locomotive engineer . rip, 47Speed, About Difference In, when Li^ver Is Hooked np, 48 Truck Box Oilers, 10 Track Tanks. How Watwr is Taken, ao Taper In Open Stacks, Use of, 43 Vacuum Brakes, Time Taken to Release, 27 Wood Burner Stack, 7 Weleht of Different Classes of Locomotives, Average, IIWelding Steel Tubes, About, IB Wear of Tire, Why one Wheel or Pair of Wheels WearMore than Othent, SJ•Wedue Boh. Kind U^^ed on P. R. R , SiWear of Tire, Why More near the Pin than Othertvlse, 25What Governs Aclheslon, 5BWhat Governs Action of Triple Valve. 51What Saturated Steam Is. 66 Valve Gear of Old Kastwiok and Harrison LocomoHvea. By J. Snowden Bell. p BValve Motions. Reminiscences of Some Old By II Kloimland, Sept. p (llcPackinglslnUse, By R. c. Belknap, Nov., p 7 All hai-k inimhtrs o/TitE Locomotive Enqineeumil be obtained of any /imrnftealei, or direct fromthis ojflee, at 10c per eoi^/. Bound nolume^, %Zper year, Addnsn THE LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEER, 96 Fullun Hlrcct, N. V, V :-^y. VOL. II, NO. i: NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1889. CorruaiiT UW. bt Hokicb B. Uoj-eb akd Ltcdboci B, Uoout per Year,or IOC. a copy. Saving Oil. When it railroad tnn rocliice ils cual coiisnniplioii,all the coal siivcd Ik clear gnin ; but wlien. thmugliany Byslem of reduction, be it prizes or ii rigid Inwof amounts allowed, the use of lubricniing oil isrestricted beyond the fiood judgment of the heilcreDginecrs, there are liable to be damages far in ex-cess of the value of the oil saved. To save a quart of oil per trip, worth 19 cents,and overheat, cut or melt the babbitt out of a bear-ing or two, worth $19, is not such a saving as a manwould think who saw the oil, but shut hiseye to the bearing. Experience has taughtmost men thai an engine will run jiist aboutas well on the truck as slie will float on oil—periiaps better. There are always some men who use adecent quantity of oil, and who do not cutjournals; why would il not be the best planto take the average
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