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 187
ad has moved back fromforward center to nearly the middle of the guides, theleft engine is exhausting on its forward stroke. Whenthe right-hand crosshead reaches a point close to theback end of the guides, the right engine is exhaustingon the backward stroke. When the crosshead on itsreturn… … When the valve is in the position shown in Plate 52,the front steam port C is uncovered and steam is ad-mitted to the front end of the cylinder, indicated by thearrow, and forces the piston toward the back end, or inthe direction of the arrow. Plate 53 shows the valve atits extreme travel with full…
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