. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ied. With exceedingly fine coal and thisoftentimes excessive drain upon theboiler, fast time to be made, much of tover heavy grades, make it a difficultmatter even for a skillful fireman to prop-erly maintain the fire in condition underthe requirements of our modern train ser-vice. The steam gradually falls 10. 20. 41pounds, and perhaps lower: time is lostand an engine failure recorded. Shouldthe failures be charged up against the en-gine, when apparently it is a combinationof circumstances brought about
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ied. With exceedingly fine coal and thisoftentimes excessive drain upon theboiler, fast time to be made, much of tover heavy grades, make it a difficultmatter even for a skillful fireman to prop-erly maintain the fire in condition underthe requirements of our modern train ser-vice. The steam gradually falls 10. 20. 41pounds, and perhaps lower: time is lostand an engine failure recorded. Shouldthe failures be charged up against the en-gine, when apparently it is a combinationof circumstances brought about bv theconditions surrounding it. in which the engine is only one factor? What aresome of the factors ? 1st. The writer has seen Ihie-sheetswhere as many as one-third of the flueswere plugged .solidly. Coal should lieupon the grates and be consumed in thefirebox, but we know that it is sometimescarried into the flues when the engine isworked to its maximum capacity. 2d. Has the grate area been increasedof late years in the same ratio as the in-crease in gross tons nf train-load and the.
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