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Swingle's Modern Locomotive Engineering with questions & answers 1908 indexed
Swingles Modern Locomotive Engineering with questions and answers 1908 indexed 822 pages The fold over piece is very fragile/ missing two small sections. The spine covering is missing a few small pieces too.
Modern locomotive engineering with questions and answers. A plain, practical treatise on the construction, care and management of modern locomotives. Boiler construction as applied to locomotives dealt with in detail. All the leading types of valves and valve gear fully described. Valve setting in all its details. An entire chapter devoted to a study of the Indicator and its application to the locomotive. The different type of compound locomotives receive especial attention. Locomotive equipments including electric headlights and mechanical stokers. Particular attention is given to the important subject of breakdown and what to do in cases of emergency. The Air Brake including both the Westinghouse and New York Systems.
The young man who starts on his business career by looking for an easy job is not likely to ever have, or at least to hold, any position of great responsibility for a very long period of time. To many unthinking persons the job of a locomotive engineer appears to be a soft snap, They do not realize the tremendous responsibility resting upon the shoulders of this man, who, by years of hard work and study combined, has finally succeeded in gaining the knowledge and experience required to enable him to guide his powerful machine safely over its route. It is universally conceded that there is no one machine that has done more towards the civilization and advancement of mankind generally, than has the locomotive, and it is a worthy ambition of any young man to aspire to be a locomotive engineer. But if he desires to make a success of it he should remember that there is work to do-lots of it-brain work as well as hand work. In the following pages the author has adopted a style somewhat different from the majority of books intended for the use of locomotive engineers and firemen.
The primary or elementary features pertaining to the operation of locomotives will be first taken up, and the discussion will gradually progress through all the various stages in the making of a first-class engineer. A large number of books for engine men are gotten up in the form of a catechism, the answers immediately following the questions. The author believes that the catechetical form is not so helpful as that of having a list of questions, but no answers, arranged at the close of each chapter. The student is thus constrained to search for the answers, which will always be found in the preceding chapter, and he will thus have the matter more firmly fixed in his mind than he would it he has the answers ready made for him.
And now with the earnest and sincere hope that the book may prove to be of great benefit to all into whose hands it may come, the author respectfully dedicates it to the locomotive engineers and firemen of America.
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