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Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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to obviatethe effects of the corrosion of steel fromcoal gases, the interior of the building isfinished in wood. Corrugated Tubes.• At the recent Master Mechanics As-sociation held at Atlantic City, Mr.Gc6rge W. West, superintendent ofmotive power of the New York, On-tario and Western, spoke in an interest-ing way of the results achieved by theuse of corrugated boiler tubes for loco-motive service, lie said that it hadbeen, found that by practical tests whenengines were equipped with corrugatedtubes that the mileage of such loco- Railroad Company and others have con-ducted experiments by pumping coldwater into boilers that had been purposelyoverheated and nothing worse occurredthan making the sheets leak, due to thesudden contraction, but these acts of en-lightenment appear to exercise no in-fluence whatever upon the minds ofpeople cherishing the explosion theory. The belief that water must not be in-jected into a hot boiler has a most detri-mental effect in the management of boil-
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PENNSyLVANIA SIGNALS, STOP, WAIT TI.ME AND PROCEED .SItiNALS. motives was double that made by en-gines equipped with ordinary tubes.Another advantage was the absence ofhot sparks thrown from the stack,which resulted in a large saving ofpaint on front ends, and proved thatmore heat had been abstracted from thehot gases than was usually the case. Injecting Water Into Hot Boilers. One of the most pernicious popular fal-lacies is that injecting water into a hotboiler is almost certain to cause an ex-plosion. It is difficult to understand howthis fallacy originated, but it is blindlybelieved in by thousands of people whoought to be better informed. The UnitedStates Government, the Pennsylvania ers, for it sometimes happens that theman in charge could prevent a boilerfrom serious damage if water was sup-plied promptly when the crown sheet wasfound to be dry. The fear of increasingthe danger by starting the injector leadsmany men to draw the fire, which makesa bad case worse, for the intensi

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