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 201
anner asthe front head (Plate 70). If the valve is broken sobadly that steam cannot be kept from the exhaust, theengine should be prepared to be towed in. Broken Valve-Seat. If the valve-seat is broken,and it is a front admission bridge and the admission 190 BREAKDOWNS. and exhaust ports can be… … PLATE 70. be moved ahead in a position just opposite to that shownin Plate 71, the crosshead blocked ahead and the cylindercock removed from the end of the cylinder in which thepiston is blocked. When blocked in this manner, oneend of the cylinder is connected to the steam-chest, whichwill admit…
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