Locomotive Up To Date By McShane 1900 Illustrated Hard Cover
The Locomotive Up To Date By Chas McShane
704 Pages
Copyright 1899, 1900
Locomotive Up to Date, The by McShane, Hard Cover
History of the Locomotive 13
Slide Valves 19
Balanced Slide Valves 64
Link Motion 97
The Shifting Link 99
Errors of the Link Motion 131
Locomotive Valve Setting 146
Rules for Valve Setting 172
Other Valve Gears 190
The Steam Indicator 212
Injectors and Boiler Checks 230
Lubricators 269
Steam and Air Gauges 28o
Metallic, Packings 292
General Information 298
Locating Blows and Pounds 313
Compound Locomotives 326
Breakdowns 401
Combustion 421
Incrustation 445
Modern Locomotives 470
Extraordinary Fast Runs 504
General Machine Shop Work (Erecting Department) 512
Shoes and Wedges 512
Quartering Driving Wheels 534
Modern Counter-Balancing 537
Miscellaneous Points, Tables, Etc 556
General Machine Work 563
Metric System 578
Compressed Air 583
Air Brake 6o9
PREFACE
It is unnecessary for me to point out in detail what I regard as the most valuable features of this work, as my judgment may be warped by the circumstances that I have found certain subjects more interesting than others. Indeed, in my judgment, every work must stand or fall upon its own merits, and nothing that an author can say in reference to it can avail to change the ultimate verdict of those who subject it to the decisive practical tests that they are called upon to apply in the discharge of their duties.
I desire to express my sincere thanks to the Railway Public for the generous reception accorded my former efforts, and trust that in this work I may be deemed, in some degree at least, to have made good my pledges to the gentlemen who requested the preparation by me of a more comprehensive work on the same subject.
The number of contributors, inventors, locomotive works and mechanical journals who have rendered assistance are too numerous to admit of my thanking them by name, but I beg here to renew to them all the acknowledgments which have already been made to each in person.
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