. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . sed on theSouthern Pacific, shown in Fig. 2, hasbeen patented by Mr. G. B. Von Boden,oil burning inspector, and Mr. E. , road foreman of engines, onthai system, and from this device ex-cellent service has been obtained withthe firebox arrangement adopted onthe road in which a minimum amountof fire brick is the prominent feature. no delicate parts to get out of orderor to prevent its free working. The wa teof oil, or drip, is said to be practicallyeliminated with this form of burm 1 In
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . sed on theSouthern Pacific, shown in Fig. 2, hasbeen patented by Mr. G. B. Von Boden,oil burning inspector, and Mr. E. , road foreman of engines, onthai system, and from this device ex-cellent service has been obtained withthe firebox arrangement adopted onthe road in which a minimum amountof fire brick is the prominent feature. no delicate parts to get out of orderor to prevent its free working. The wa teof oil, or drip, is said to be practicallyeliminated with this form of burm 1 In the operation of this oil burningarrangement the mixture of atomizedoil and steam, which is delivered in arearward direction from the dischargenozzle of the burner, passes above the Opposed to of the n by a vice- in ident of a steam railroad in the West ag; electrification of the lines entering Chicago 1 that in that city are unlike tho e in New York, where the elec-tric working of traffic h arriedout. He says, It is well to the railroads entering Manhattan Isl-. FIG. r. SIDE VIEW OF FIREBOX ARRANGEMENT. floor of the botton pan of the firebox,and above the air, which is drawn inthrough the draft openings, by the ac-tion of the exhaust. Air drawn throughthe tube holes, which serve as draftopenings, moving in the opposite di-rection to the oil flame, tends to raisethe flame in its rearward traverse. Theflame meets the oppositely moving cur-rent of air from the upper air passagethrough the lire door and thereafterpasses forward through the firebox, be-low the crown sheet to the tubes. Inpractice the oil is found to be con-
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