. Railway mechanical engineer . i<_„j^Jl__JiCU 7JL December. 1918 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER 651 fuels, the boilers of the two Santa Fe locomotives are conical ring is placed in the middle of the barrel, increas-ing the shell diameter from 82 in. at the front end to 96 tlie throat. The firebox has a combustion chamber 45 J4 , and arch tubes are used in both the boilers. An archis fitted in tlie coal-burning locomotive, which is fired witha Duplex mechanical stoker and is equipped with power-operated grate shaker and fire door. On engine 3701 thestandard arrangement of
. Railway mechanical engineer . i<_„j^Jl__JiCU 7JL December. 1918 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER 651 fuels, the boilers of the two Santa Fe locomotives are conical ring is placed in the middle of the barrel, increas-ing the shell diameter from 82 in. at the front end to 96 tlie throat. The firebox has a combustion chamber 45 J4 , and arch tubes are used in both the boilers. An archis fitted in tlie coal-burning locomotive, which is fired witha Duplex mechanical stoker and is equipped with power-operated grate shaker and fire door. On engine 3701 thestandard arrangement of Santa Fe oil-buming equipment,with Booth burner, is used. The superheaters are of the samesize as those used in the Santa Fe 3160 class Mikado typelocomotives. Flexible staybolts are applied in the breaking zones in thesides, back and throat of the firebox, and in the sides andbottom of the combustion chamber, while four rows of ex-pansion stavs support the forward end of the combustionchamber crown. In the case of such of th
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