. Railway mechanical engineer . guides are back in theirplace, having been planed and ground, the lagging has beenapplied and the jacket is in place. The heads of the Tatestaybolts have been removed and replaced, and all the stay-bolts examined. As stated above, the flues were removedat 6:35 p, m. The new ones were applied complete in 1liour and 25 minutes after the old ones had been the night the superheater ball joints were ground andunits replaced. The front end netting was put in position,the side rods were hung and a large amount of the piping -)U4 RAILWAY MECHAXICAL ENGINE


. Railway mechanical engineer . guides are back in theirplace, having been planed and ground, the lagging has beenapplied and the jacket is in place. The heads of the Tatestaybolts have been removed and replaced, and all the stay-bolts examined. As stated above, the flues were removedat 6:35 p, m. The new ones were applied complete in 1liour and 25 minutes after the old ones had been the night the superheater ball joints were ground andunits replaced. The front end netting was put in position,the side rods were hung and a large amount of the piping -)U4 RAILWAY MECHAXICAL ENGINEER Vol. 91, No. 7 was reapplied. The crosshead and cylinder heads were ap-plied. The appearance of the engine at 7:00 a. m. onTuesday is shown in Fig. 5. The rest of the work was done between 7:00 a. m., when etc. The valves were squared by moving the locomotiveby a smaller engine. The boiler was washed out and wasfilled with hot water and fired up in about 30 minutes. Theengine was in the hands of transportation department at. Fig. 5—I he Locomotive as It Appeared at 7 A. on Tuesday. the day force again took the engine, and 12:30, at noon,when it was finished complete, fired up for the testing will be seen from a close examination of Fig. 5, the work 4:00 p. m. on Tuesday, just 33 hours after it was received atthe shops. The photograph shown in Fig. 6 was taken whenit left the shop. The regular shop forces were used on this


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