18. Q. Describe a locomotive fire-box.

A. The modern form is a rectangular shaped structure located at the back

end of the boiler. It has a door and is composed of two side sheets, a

crown sheet, a back sheet and a flue sheet from which the flues extend

to the smoke-box at the other end of the boiler.

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