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 206
PLATE 77. Cracked or Broken Steam-Chest. A cracked orbroken steam-chest is usually caused by reversing theengine when running at a high rate of speed, with thethrottle closed. This causes the cylinders to becomeair compressors. High pressure is forced into thesteam-chest, and, having no means of…
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