. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . D. L. Eubank was chairmanof the committee which presented it. Itappears that in i86g Nicholas Siebert in-vented a down drop lubricator and in1873 John Gates of Portland, Ore., in-vented the first up-drop sight feed lubri-cator which was experimented with butdid not come into general use for anumber of years afterwards, and it isasserted by one of the leading makers oflubricators, that the first sight-feed lubri-cator applied to a locomotive was madeby him in 1880. The lubricator was atfirst a
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . D. L. Eubank was chairmanof the committee which presented it. Itappears that in i86g Nicholas Siebert in-vented a down drop lubricator and in1873 John Gates of Portland, Ore., in-vented the first up-drop sight feed lubri-cator which was experimented with butdid not come into general use for anumber of years afterwards, and it isasserted by one of the leading makers oflubricators, that the first sight-feed lubri-cator applied to a locomotive was madeby him in 1880. The lubricator was atfirst a crude affair, but like other appli-ances, improvement after improvement,has been made. The committee points out that oneroad reports that a comparison betweentwo engines of same class in same serviceboth in first class condition, one equippedwith driving lubricators and theother with oil cellars, both making27,000 miles, the engine with the oil cel-lars cost $ as against $ for theengine with the driving box lubricator,showing a saving of $ Following the introduction of grease. liar in construction, although those forthe freight engines have a greater fueland water capacity than the tenders•ned with the pasncnger locomotives. ■ he frames arc composed of 12-in. iianncU, the crntcr silU weighing 40lbs. per foot and the side sills 2$ tanks arc of the water-bottomtype. Arch bar trucks arc used, thoseunder the passmgcr tenders being fitted wllh Orrl tirrd whrrU, ululr the IN A. ( mil I I) 63 int.: ihiikncM of thsdi, tiilet, H in.;h«ck. i It, in.; crown. H in.; tube. V, Space. — I lunl, s int.; (idei, 4 in*.; back. Tube*. —. Meel; Ihicknett, int.; numlier, jc?; diameter, iji in».; length. 21 Surfn.; other*, 9 « 13 ln«.Engine Triirk Wherli.—niametcr, front, Int.; inuinaU. i x 12 int.; diameter, back, 45 in. ; ,0,1, H x 14
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