CHAPTER XXXVIII.

=THE LOCOMOTIVE.=

=Modern Freight Locomotive= 389, 390

General construction 389

Course of steam from boiler to smoke stack 389

Boiler feed 389

Position of parts for starting 389

Steam supply to injectors 389

Oil supply to slide valve and cylinder 389

Control of safety valve 389

Pop valve 389

Automatic air brake 390

Draught of fire 390

Sand valves 390

=American Passenger Locomotive= 390 to 393

General construction 390

Steam reversing gear 390, 391

Link motion in full gear forward 391

In mid gear 392

In full gear backward 392

Reversing gear 392

Changing gear of link motion 393

Running forward 393

Running backward 393

=Special Operations= 394

Setting the slide valves 394

Getting the length of eccentric rods 394

Setting the lead 394

Backward eccentric 394

Marking sector notches 394

Setting Allen valves 395

=Special Parts= 395 to 400

The injector 395 to 397

Westinghouse automatic air brake 398 to 400

=Locomotive Running= 400 to 404

General discussion 400

Getting the engine ready 400

Laying the fire 400

Banking the fire 401

Starting up a banked fire 401

Examining the engine 401

Oiling the engine 401

Starting the engine 401

Saving fuel 402

Methods of firing 402

Examples of trips 402

=Accidents on the Road= 402

Knocking out cylinder heads 402

Heating of piston rods 403

Throwing off a wheel tire 403

Throwing off a driving wheel 403

Breaking a spring 403

Bursted tubes 403

Slipping eccentrics 403

Hot axle boxes 403

Breaking a lifting link 403

Breaking the saddle pin 403

Adjusting the wedges of the axle boxes 404

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