Railway and Locomotive Engineering . feature about their historyis that they held their own so long inthe face of improvements on other rail-roads. Possibly if the track had notbeen changed to the standard gauge thesefossilized remains of a defunct periodmight have been consuming coal at thepresent day. Underfeed Stokers. A locomotive engineer writing in theJ irriiiaiis Magazine, says: The Pennsyl-vania Railroad has 375 locomotivese(inipped with the Crawford Underfeedstoker. When beginning the use of the stoker,a great deal of trouble was experiencedwith breakdowns and irregular distribu-tion,
Railway and Locomotive Engineering . feature about their historyis that they held their own so long inthe face of improvements on other rail-roads. Possibly if the track had notbeen changed to the standard gauge thesefossilized remains of a defunct periodmight have been consuming coal at thepresent day. Underfeed Stokers. A locomotive engineer writing in theJ irriiiaiis Magazine, says: The Pennsyl-vania Railroad has 375 locomotivese(inipped with the Crawford Underfeedstoker. When beginning the use of the stoker,a great deal of trouble was experiencedwith breakdowns and irregular distribu-tion, but later on as the stoker developed,the weak points were discovered and re-medied so as to overcome all trouble. Stokers are so arranged as to enabletiie plungers to distribute the coal evenlyall over the firebox. It was thought atlirst that slack coal could not be used withtlie Underfeed type of stoker, but fromexperience we have had with run of and slack coal, the slack has provedsuccessful. We have no engines assigned. in; .\.\u exkti k -t -m. FOOT T-\M< CO., lS.^3-4. BUILT BV BOTH WELL them over the hill when tlieir speed cameback to them and they went on the homestretch on the down grade at recordbreaking speeds. It took the construc-tors nearly half a century to discover p. regular crews. All of our engines arerun in pools. Each fireman on our di-vision gets a stoker equipped engine anaverage of twenty days a month, and theynever fail. KAILWAV AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. January, 1916. Deparliiieiit ol Ouestioiis and Answers Pounds of Water Evaporated PerPound of Uucyrus, Ohio, asks: Howmany pounds of water should be evapor-ated per pound of coal in a locomotive?A. The niimlier of pounds of watertliai i; rated per pound of coal in a .ilcr depends entirely „jK,i, ;,., , ^i the coal used. With a fair luahty of bituminous coal anevaporation of 7 to 8 pounds of waterper pound of coal is considered good loco-motive performance. With
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