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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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nd entirely does away with jacking 11live slcam into the cxhauvt of the high- enginespressure cylinder—no other way lo gel itto the low. In doing this, live steamI both sides of the high-pressure. therefore doing no useful work,Ihe engine being started by irs I have been running a little Bald- deslal brace, or on a short road running out of Brooklyn ngine put in shop. Having The trains consist of one car. week days, t so long, we would hardly and three cars on Stindays. These ear> get along without it now. ■ are large eight-wheeled s men to do required stripping and removedrivers ; a pair of 30-inch wheels is thenplaced und€ knowTii Along with the others. I inclose picture ing seventy passeogei of air-press. 30-inch cylinder. iS-inch twice that of the average trolley car. T stroke.fordriving-boxbrasses,rod-bushes, days work is seventy car miles. Fu etc.. etc. which knocks out screw or hard coal at S4.00 per Ion on the engine Cost of fuel per mile, pulling i car, .gi le, pull-
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Whon I first beganiroubluBomc butt in Ihe goveniors. it wassuggested to me by Mr. Putnam, travelingengineer of the Iowa division of the C. &N. W. Ky.. that, for the same leasonsstated by Mr. Wood, the noise could possibly be stopped by preventing the piston work tifrom rftining so far that the head would wheels noogh to clear the stacks of engines. A Ituve is then dropped into sand-box, and lirty seconds. dried it is stored in box. directly over - pUcs the drop pit. Ilie pit runs under three Iraek:wlileh engines arc placed, and when ru«e it is covered over. In cose of a loose driving-box braanything of thai kind where pair of drivers, it is much less ducing-val ve keep

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