. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nder, coal and water—106,000 pounds. luiil weight oi engine and tender inworking order—271,000 pounds. Outside diameter of smallest ring ofboiler—72 inche Length of firebox—10 feet. 1 irate surface— square feel. Two hundred and seventy -4 inchHues. Total heating surface—2, squarefeet. The grade runs as high as 106 feet onwest side of hill, and 97 feet on east sideof hill. Engines are rated at 1,400 tonson west side of hill, with an engine ofsame class pushing. Red Buttes to Sher-man, miles
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . nder, coal and water—106,000 pounds. luiil weight oi engine and tender inworking order—271,000 pounds. Outside diameter of smallest ring ofboiler—72 inche Length of firebox—10 feet. 1 irate surface— square feel. Two hundred and seventy -4 inchHues. Total heating surface—2, squarefeet. The grade runs as high as 106 feet onwest side of hill, and 97 feet on east sideof hill. Engines are rated at 1,400 tonson west side of hill, with an engine ofsame class pushing. Red Buttes to Sher-man, miles. Average time consumedRed Buttes to Sherman, 1 hour and 10minutes. This rating runs from 40 to 48loads, and is usually all air-brake to Cheyenne is miles, anaverage grade of 90 feet. Uncle Georgetakes 40 to 50 loads down this grade aswell as the younger enginemen, and al-ways has plenty of air, and no trouble atall in any kind of weather; is always satis-fied, and we never find him looking foitrouble. P. H. Stack,Loco. Insp., Union Pacific Ry, Omaha. Neb,. ENGINE RUN* BY THE VETERAN. on the day mail train—a very importanttrain. He left for America in 1871. going direi tto Omaha, Neb., where he secured a posi-tion as locomotive engineer, and wassent to Laramie. Wyo., where he has re-mained ever since as a road engineer, andtakes his turn regularly, in all kinds ofweather. Following is the description of Engine1607, the engine run by Mr. Garrett: Cylinders—22 x 28 inches. Diameter of driving wheels—51 inches. Putting Animal Oil in Boilers. Editors: In issue of November I noticed an-swer to No. 83, G. C. C, Lowell, Mass.,and would like to state my experienceI once forced one tcaspoonful of valveoil through injector to boiler, and I hada time with that train. No engineer canrun engine and pull train if there hasbeen the least particle of any fatty sub-stance blown into or placed in said that oil went into boiler was im-probable, but p
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