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r in a single setting. In a row with them were five newer 500- i93o THE LOCOMOTIV 1 99 horsepower boilers, set singly. Operating pressure for all boilers 145 pounds. The style of setting used for the smaller boilers was such thatthe plain heads of their mud-drums were enclosed in masonry andwere… … Figurc 2 ening thus caused was further aggravated by the obsolete, somewhatflattened design of the head in which breathing action would produceflexing at the sharp turn of the flange. When the head blew from Boiler No. 4 it drove the mud-drumof Boiler No. 3 endwise in such a way that tubes of the…
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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