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
oint reached by the first shovelful back tocover two-thirds the length of the box. Lower line(3) shows the third shovelful scattered through therear portion of the box. All should be placed evenlyon one side of the fire-box, leaving on the opposite sidea bright, incandescent fire, which consumes… … Fig. 2 shows the short fire-box, firing with the one-shovel system. This figure indicates how the coal LOCOMOTIVE FIRING. should be applied at frequent intervals, one shovel ata time. This method is especially practical on smallpassenger, freight and yard engines. The same systemmay be adopted with…
Locomotives
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
