Modern American Locomotive Engines: Their Design, Construction and Management. A Practical Work for Practical Men

H.C. Baird & Company, 1903 - Locomotives - 383 pages

INTRODUCTION	25

Foaming and Priming Importance of Providing Enough Steam	31

CHAPTER I	33

Defects in Boilers	39

Steam Should be Superheated when Leaving the Boiler Moist	42

To Prevent Cylinder Condensation The Importance of Super	48

The Rate of Surface Evaporation Proportioned to the Elastic Force	54

ECONOMY OF FUEL	55

The Faulty Construction of Locomotive Boilers	166

Fastening Crown Bars	173

The Admission of the Steam	179

Practical Method of Setting the Valves of a Locomotive Great	185

To Give the Valves the Required Lead	195

Improved Piston	210

The 1876 Injector by Wm Sellers	218

NonSuction Injector A Method of Connecting	234

On the Admission of	61

The Steam Engine a Heat Engine The Water Which is Vapor	66

Illustration of the Principle of the Intermittent Calorimeter	72

Experiments with the Boiler of a Rogers Engine on the Ohio	78

Illustrations of the Pulley and the Wedge	83

English Engines Imported for the New Castle and Frenchtown	89

The Second Locomotive Built in the United StatesThe Best	95

The Third American Locomotive Built The West Point by	96

American Locomotive of 1883 with Description of the Different	102

How the Alternate Motion of the Pistons is Converted into	108

The Operation of the Steam and the Machinery put in Motion	109

Performance of this Engine on a Trial Trip in Ordinary Freight	116

Show of Locomotives Essentially an American One Locomotives	121

57	122

Notes Referring to the Table	127

angie and Coupled Locomotives Mogul and Consolidation Locomo	131

Performance of this Engine Steaming Capacity of the Boiler	139

CHAPTER XII	146

The Operation of Consolidation Engines	147

etted Joint	153

Holding Power of Tubes in Steam Boilers Experiments Made	160

Title	Modern American Locomotive Engines: Their Design, Construction and Management. A Practical Work for Practical Men
Author	Emory Edwards
Publisher	H.C. Baird & Company, 1903
Original from	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Digitized	8 Aug 2014
Length	383 pages

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CHAPTER XX	245

If the Main Rod Breaks	251

CHAPTER XXII	257

Experiments of Mr Westinghouse and Captain Galton	260

CHAPTER XXIII	266

Kinds of Examinations Firemen Must Pass before Being Promoted	272

CHAPTER XXIV	280

Steel Boilers	286

How to File Work in the Vise	290

Elements in Railroad Economy	296

What Sixty Miles an Hour Actually Means	311

Cleaning Firing	316

Table of Diameters Areas and Circumferences of Circles in Feet	334

Table of the Temperatures and Volumes of Steam	342

Table of Approximate Numbers	348

Table of Hyberbolic Logarithms	360

Table of Specific Gravities	363

The Two Classes or Systems	369

QUALITY OF STEAM	374

The Principal Distinction in the Features of the Operation of	378

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