. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . lways done under the best condi-tions. In the leading locomotive worksthere is a precision in ways and meansthat is rarely departed from. A pre-arranged schedule is maintained. In theroadside shops the work is itntermittent,and the work usually begins with an at-tempt at a dramatic flourish of gettingthe frames and boiler and saddle andcylinders together as rapidly as possiblewith a view to gratify the eye of somehigher authority. If the general foremanwas let alone there would be no suchtrem
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . lways done under the best condi-tions. In the leading locomotive worksthere is a precision in ways and meansthat is rarely departed from. A pre-arranged schedule is maintained. In theroadside shops the work is itntermittent,and the work usually begins with an at-tempt at a dramatic flourish of gettingthe frames and boiler and saddle andcylinders together as rapidly as possiblewith a view to gratify the eye of somehigher authority. If the general foremanwas let alone there would be no suchtremendous haste at the start, and theremight be less trouble later on. A con-sensus of opinion among shop foremen are not by any means finished. There arequite a number of different methods usedin squaring the shoes and wedges withthe object in view of bringing the wheelssquare with the frames and cylinders, centers. After this has been perfectlyaccomplished draw a vertical line downsquare with the top of the frame and letthe blade of the square feel the edge ofthe straight edge and this line will be. FIG. 2. among which are stretching a line drawnthrough the cylinders and made centralto the counter bore of each end of thecylinder and running well back of the
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