Locomotive catechism; an up-to-date, practical and complete work on the locomotive--treating on the design, construction, repair and running of all kinds of locomotives .. (1908)
Grimshaw, Robert, 1850- [from old catalog] · New York, The N. W. Henley publishing company · leaf 102
e use of the smoke-box? A. To afford an easy passageway in which the combustion-gases may turn from a horizontal to a vertical course inleaving the tubes and entering the stack; and to serve as areceptacle for solid particles that have been drawn alongthrough the tubes from the fire-box; to give… … Figs. 76 and 77. Locomotive for the Austrian State Railways. LOfG. 100 LOCOMOTIVE CATECHISM. exhaust being chilled and thus losing its power of entrainingair with it. Q. Of what is the smoke-box front usually made? A. Cast iron, having in its center a large outward-openingdoor which permits…
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