. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ins. ahead of the fluesheet, thus providing a working space be-tween the two. A man-hole through thelower portion of the smoke arch affordsaccess to this space. In line with thelarge cylindrical opening in the frontsection, one 6-in. flue is placed in the rearsection in order thai boiler flues may becut out and removed through this FIG. 4. FRONT SECTION IN PLACE. .\I1 parts of the superheater are readilyaccessible and the drums may be easilyremoved from the Owing tothe mann
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ins. ahead of the fluesheet, thus providing a working space be-tween the two. A man-hole through thelower portion of the smoke arch affordsaccess to this space. In line with thelarge cylindrical opening in the frontsection, one 6-in. flue is placed in the rearsection in order thai boiler flues may becut out and removed through this FIG. 4. FRONT SECTION IN PLACE. .\I1 parts of the superheater are readilyaccessible and the drums may be easilyremoved from the Owing tothe manner in which the superheater isbuilt, there are practically no running re-pairs to be made while the engine is in March, 191a RAILWAY AXD LOCOMOTIVE EXGIXEERIXG. ser\-ice. Steam pipe connections have balljoints. With the elimination of all draftappliances, repairs to front ends of loco-motives with this superheater is practic-ally reduced to inspection. While thelive cinders are broken up and all tire-throwing from the stack eliminated, thefront end is self-cleaning and requiresbut little attention at terminals on thisaccount. The first Jacobs superheater was placedin service on the Santa Fe and applied toa simple locomotive leaving the shops inNovember, 1908, and has been in con-tinuous service since that time with ab-solutely no repairs to the then and up to September. 1909,sixteen locomotives on the same road ha
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