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 152
necessary. In getting a new or a rebuilt locomotive ready forservice, the oil pipes should be disconnected at thesteam-chest, and the oil pipes and automatic steam-chest valves blown out thoroughly. The coupling to LOCOMOTIVE LUBRICATORS. 141 the air-pump should also be disconnected and blownout… … PLATE 40. adjusted too tightly, as it would only serve to injurethe packing. There is no danger of leakage at thispoint, as the glass and packing are so designed thatthe greater the pressure from the inside the closer thejoint. 142 LOCOMOTIVE LUBRICATORS.
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