Locomotive text for engineers and firemen; a complete treatise on the engine, electric head-light and standard code of train rules (1908)
National correspondence school of railroading, Chicago. [from old catalog] · [Chicago] · leaf 14
he enginehouse track. The coal must be brokeninto suitable size before being placed in the fire-box,never losing sight of the rule that the coal for the nextfire should be prepared immediately after putting in afire. Placing Coal in the Fire-Box. The following illus-trations show the proper methods… … %g. I. should be placed. The deep line (1) shows the firstshovelful of coal to be scattered evenly from the frontpart of the box back to one-third of the distance; cen-ter line (2) shows the second shovelful, to be scatteredfrom a point reached by the first shovelful back tocover two-thirds the…
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