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 568
-sages would be closed; and in position 3, also indicated by a VAUCLAIN COMPOUND. 553 dotted line, the starting valve only would be open to admitlive steam to the L. P. cylinder. Q. Describe in detail the operation of the combined cylindercock and starting valve? A. As shown in Fig. 360, when the… … Fig. 361. Baldwin (Vauclain) Combined Starting-Valveand Cvlinder-Cock. to the L. P. cylinder; putting the H. P. piston.head very nearlyin equilibrium, but giving the L, P. cylinder nearly full boilerpressure. The valve has two taper plugs, one controlling theH. P. cylinder cock, the other the low;…
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