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Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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e locomotive, I think Ican throw a little light on the disabled chest, split it in two and chamfer out anotch the shape of your piston rod, aboutI inch on either side of the stick. Thentake another piece of bell cord, tie it tothe lower end of the two sticks, bring itaround under the cylinder to the frontend, back over the steam chest, and makeit fast to the other end of your two sticks.Put a binding stick in on top of thesteam chest or at the front end of the cyl-inder head, crosswise in your bell cord^—■that is. tied to the sticks—then turn your A great many of our firemen do notstudy firing enough. They shovel in coaluntil the steam goes back, and then rakeit until the engine gets hot; shovel againuntil steam goes back, and so on until ii>a few miles they have neither steam norfire. We have a tunnel on our road one miltlong. It used to be so smoky, I dreadedcoming to it. But they are re-arching itnow, and the orders are very strict aboutsmoke. The tunnel is almost clear ot
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MEXICAN CENTRAL ENGINE—RESERVOIRS OVER CYLINDERS. (KINDNESS OF N. B.\RRETT.) gland to the benefit of readers of Locomo-tive Engineering, and this is the plan: If stub and gland are both broken, takeaway the pieces, run engine on top or bot-tom quarter, cover your ports so steamwill not trouble you while you work, drawthe spring out to the crosshead, and if youhave no hemp or soap-stone packing, takeyour bell cord and put a couple of coils ofit in the stuffing box, twisting or plaiting itin a hurry-up way as well as you can;then twist some waste up as hard as you canand pack it in tightly, leaving some roomin the box for your spring. While you aredoing this, have your fireman get a pieceof board, a little longer than the diameterof your cylinder and height of your steam binder, bind it up as you would bind aload of wood, drawing your wooden glandand compressing the spring to clear theboss on your crosshead. Make the end ofyour binding stick fast to blower pipe orhand rail, and you ar

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