. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . m of water from the injectors orfrom a blower attached direct to the boil-er, and this being in the form of a sprink-ler simply washes the plates, or after thecinders had been dumped to the trackcould be used for putting out the fire onthe track. The ashes could be discharged curves, precludes the possibility of warp-ing or buckling. The danger of ashesescaping is also avoided as the ash pan isair-tight except at the mud-ring, wherethere is an opening of ten to twelve percent, of the grate ar
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . m of water from the injectors orfrom a blower attached direct to the boil-er, and this being in the form of a sprink-ler simply washes the plates, or after thecinders had been dumped to the trackcould be used for putting out the fire onthe track. The ashes could be discharged curves, precludes the possibility of warp-ing or buckling. The danger of ashesescaping is also avoided as the ash pan isair-tight except at the mud-ring, wherethere is an opening of ten to twelve percent, of the grate area through which to ad-mit air for combustion. The original low-cost and the almost complete absence ofthe need of repairs are advantages in these Mallets has led to an approach in thestandardization of devices and materialsthat are calculated to meet the require-ments of every kind of service, as well asthe co-ordination of forms that becomereadily familiar because of their uniform-ity. In the matter of ash pans furnishedby the Baldwin Locomotive Works, theoperating mechanism has received consid-. -^ FIG. J. ASH PAX FOR LONG NARROW FIREBOX—BALDWIN LOCOMOTIVE WORKS. from this pan from the locomotive byhand, air or steam, as desired, or fromthe foot-board, or by a lever operated bya man standing on the ground. An ad-vantage is in the fact that it cannot be-come distorted from the heat and in caseof extreme cold weather, when the ashesin the pan may freeze, hot water or steamfrom the boiler may be readily connectedup to overflow pipes, and discharged into high-priced times. This design has metwith considerable favor in the West, theMissouri Pacific having over 600 in ser-vice, and the reports during the recentwinter show that this form of ash pan hasmade an excellent record in severe has also been adopted as standard onthe Western Maryland, and is being triedon the Wabash, the St. Louis-San Fran-cisco and other roads. erable attention, and a degree of sound-ness of c
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