Cyclopedia of locomotive engineering, with examination questions and answers; a practical manual on the construction care and management of modern locomotives . Figure 1 put on the blower lightly and open the fire door one-half inch, just sufficient to allow a small volume of airto enter the fire-box above the fire. This will preventthe engine from throwing out a great volume of denseblack smoke while making the the grate bars are a part of the engine with which i6 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING the fireman is particularly interested, a brief descrip*tion of the various types will be here give
Cyclopedia of locomotive engineering, with examination questions and answers; a practical manual on the construction care and management of modern locomotives . Figure 1 put on the blower lightly and open the fire door one-half inch, just sufficient to allow a small volume of airto enter the fire-box above the fire. This will preventthe engine from throwing out a great volume of denseblack smoke while making the the grate bars are a part of the engine with which i6 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING the fireman is particularly interested, a brief descrip*tion of the various types will be here given. The old-fashioned grate bars for burning wood are too familiarto need describing, being simply plain cast iron sta-tionary bars with narrow slots between them. Forsoft coal various styles of rocking grates are I and 2 show plan and sectional views of rockinggrates. The method of shaking is also illustrated inFig. 2, together with the dump grate at the front to be
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