Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 511
ipped off on previousoccasions, attendants said, but thistime the safety cams on the enginevalve gear were not in proper posi-tion. The result was that the stop-ping of the governor failed to cutoff steam from the engine, as itshould have done. As the enginehad been relieved of its load by the… … 1933 THE LOCOMOTIVI. 233 flying fragments of the wheel also badly injured one of the members of the firm who was in the doorway to the engine room, and someparts of the wheel were found six hundred feet away. The flywheelwas of cast iron. 14 feet in diameter with a rim 25 wide and 2 thick.
Locomotives · Steam-boiler explosions
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