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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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r, whichholds a supply of coal which will last for aweek or ten days. This bunker counter-balances the weight of the water tank.As will be seen, this arrangement o(boiler, water tank and coal bunker equallyli.il.inees the material in that end of thecar, ami the weight is thrown directlyto tlw center of the truck. To the right Water is forced to the basins by com-pressed air. The car is fitted throughoutwith electric lights, which will be con-nected to the wires of the plants at thevarious stations at which the car stops.Linoleum covers the floor of the entirecar. I Wo years ago. when the subject of anair brake instruction car for the N. C. &St. L. Ry. first came up. it was proposed totake an old coach or baggage-car andadapt it to this purpose. Assistant Gen-eral Manager Thomas objected to thescheme. He believed that anything worthdoing was worth doing well. He arguedthat the importance of air-brake instruc-tion would be more strongly emphasizedto the mind of a man upon entering a
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Fig. 1. N. C. & ST. I.. RY. AIR-BRAKE INSTRUCTION CAR. of cars is laid underneath the floor. Sig-nal apparatus with proper amount of pip-ing is arranged in the clere-story of thecar. At the farther end. to the right, isthe instructors station, which is properlysupplied with tandem triple valves, gages,and other instruction apparatus. Fig. 3 is an anterior view showing theboiler, which is of Westinghouse manu-facture, and has the pump supported tothe boiler in the same manner as that ota locomotive. In this way we get rid ofthe disagreeable thump experienced byhaving the pump located and attached atthe side of the car. The pan underneaththe boiler is to receive the water whenthe boiler is being washed out. All drainsempty into the ash-pan. An ash chutecarries the a hi I drainage from tin is the work bench. To the left is the fold-ing-bed for the porter. Fig. 4 is a view had of the boiler by en-tering the car at the machinery end. Anidea of the careful workmanship put uponthis boile

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