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 36
Z&.7. The Locomotive Fire-Box. The modern fire-boxof a locomotive is rectangular in shape (Fig. 9), andconsists of side sheets (E), crown-sheet (U), backsheet (C) and flue sheet (Y). The fire-box is sub-jected to a crushing strain. The sheets of the fire-boxare supported by means of stay-bolts… … Hollow stay-bolts (Fig. 10) are used so that a brokenbolt can be detected by escaping steam from the drillhole placed in the bolt for that purpose. The crown-sheet is supported by means of the crown-bars andradial stays. The inside and outside sheets of a fire-box are se-cured at the bottom by…
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