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 287
ead and noting from whichend of the cylinder the light exhaust comes. A broken admission ring No. 1 or 2 in the high pres-sure valve gives too early a port opening to the highpressure cylinder and cuts off the steam too late. Thisallows too much steam to be admitted to the high pressurecylinder and… … PLATE 126. When testing for a valve blow in a tandem compound,the engine should be placed on the quarter, the brake set,the ports covered, the cylinder cocks on the high pressurecylinder blocked open, and the engine given a full headof steam. If no steam appears at the cylinder cocks itindicates…
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