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 283
ylinders and is exhausted throughthe hollow of the valve to the low pressure cylinder andthence to the exhaust past the end of the valve (Plate 2^2 COMPOUND LOCOMOTIVES. 123). When working as a simple engine, steam is admit-ted directly from the steam-chest to the starting valve, andpasses through… … PLATE 123.direct from the high pressure steam-chest, prevent thehigh pressure cylinder from exhausting into the low pres-sure, and have no effect on the working of the engine. Engine Drifting. When drifting down grade thereverse lever should be in full gear and the startingvalve open as when…
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