item: #1 of 7
          id: 17783
      author: Traveling Engineers' Association
       title: The Traveling Engineers' Association to Improve the Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads Examination Questions and Answers for Firemen for Promotion and New Men for Employment
        date: None
       words: 58331
      flesch: 80
     summary: If the main crank pin was broken? A. Take down eccentric rod, eccentric crank, main rod and all connecting rods, block cross-head, disconnect from end of radius rod, chain it to running board and block steam valve to cover ports. Why should you not use valve oil in these bearings? A. Valve oil cannot be used successfully in the main bearing because of its heavy body.
    keywords: a. steam; a. valve; air; air brake; brake cylinder; brake pipe; brake valve; control valve; end; engine; exhaust valve; feed valve; fire; pipe pressure; piston valve; position; pressure; pressure air; pressure cylinder; pressure piston; reservoir; rod; slide valve; steam cylinder; steam pressure; steam valve; valve oil; valve pipe; water
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        item: #2 of 7
          id: 18747
      author: Randolph, B. S. (Beverly S.)
       title: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 Locomotive Performance On Grades Of Various Lengths, Paper No. 1172
        date: None
       words: 5776
      flesch: 75
     summary: |1906 ============================================================================ ============================================================================== |Source of Data. ======================================================================== Length of grade, in miles | |
    keywords: = =; = weight; = |source; drivers; grade; miles; | |
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        item: #3 of 7
          id: 19133
      author: Gregory, Charles Hutton
       title: Practical Rules for the Management of a Locomotive Engine in the Station, on the Road, and in cases of Accident
        date: None
       words: 6464
      flesch: 55
     summary: The water is higher when the Engine is running than when stopping: a good working height for it in most Engines is when _water_ blows off from the middle cock while running, and _water and steam_ when stopping: an Engine-man is sometimes obliged to run the water rather lower, if he has heavy work; but it is always better to keep the level of the water as high as possible. One pump, if constantly at work, would, in most Engines, supply as much, or rather more water than is required by the Engine as equivalent to the steam consumed; so that by turning on or off either or both pumps, the Engine-man has the power of regulating the height of the water in the boiler at discretion.
    keywords: engine; fire; man; steam; time; train; water
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        item: #4 of 7
          id: 28160
      author: White, John H.
       title: The 'Pioneer': Light Passenger Locomotive of 1851 United States Bulletin 240, Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, paper 42, 1964
        date: None
       words: 10093
      flesch: 67
     summary: Pioneer_ cost $6,200 in gold, but is unable to give the source for this information. Pioneer_
    keywords: boiler; cumberland; engine; figure; frame; illustration; iron; locomotive; museum; pioneer; railroad; smith; steam; valley; valve; wheel; wilmarth
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        item: #5 of 7
          id: 39329
      author: Baldwin Locomotive Works
       title: Illustrated Catalogue of Locomotives; Baldwin Locomotive Works
        date: None
       words: 31057
      flesch: 73
     summary: Other engines of the same pattern, but with eighteen and one-half inch cylinders, were built in 1862-63, for the same company, and for the Don Pedro II. Railway of Brazil. Subsequently, on other engines on which the spark-box was not used, the half-saddles were cast so as almost to meet under the smoke-box, and, after the cylinders were adjusted in position, wedges were fitted in the interstices and the saddles bolted together.
    keywords: baldwin; base; c |; class; cylinders; diameter; drivers; driving; engine; feet; inches; iron; locomotive; pounds; railroad; stroke; tender; tons; truck; weight; wheels; | |
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        item: #6 of 7
          id: 44604
      author: Doughty, Frank W.
       title: How to Become an Engineer
        date: None
       words: 19424
      flesch: 84
     summary: Here are a few dates: Watt's invention of the separate condenser, 1765; Watt's first patent, 1769; Watt's first working engine introduced into a manufactory, 1775; first steam engine erected in Ireland, 1791; first steamboat run on the Hudson, 1797; first steamboat abroad, 1801. Read them with care: With good engineers an awkward fireman soon changes his habits and appearance--he gets the knots dressed off of him, as it were.
    keywords: boiler; box; brass; cut; end; engine; engineer; fig; fire; good; half; hand; hole; illustration; inch; inches; locomotive; model; piece; plate; steam; time; water; work
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        item: #7 of 7
          id: 46229
      author: Smiles, Samuel
       title: The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive
        date: None
       words: 187315
      flesch: 60
     summary: [69] The arguments used by Mr. Stephenson with the directors in favor of the locomotive engine were afterward collected and published in 1830 by Robert Stephenson and Joseph Locke, as compiled from the Reports of Mr. George Stephenson. Charles J. Brandling, Esq., occupied the chair; and several resolutions were passed, of which the first and most important was as follows: That it is the opinion of this meeting that Mr. George Stephenson, having _discovered the fact_ that explosion of hydrogen gas will not pass through tubes and apertures of small dimensions, and having been _the first to apply that principle in the construction of a safety-lamp_, is entitled to a public reward.
    keywords: afterward; bill; boiler; bridge; canal; carriage; character; coach; coal; colliery; committee; company; construction; country; course; darlington; darlington railway; day; difficulty; directors; end; engine; engineer; england; experiments; father; feet; fire; following; form; general; george stephenson; great; ground; half; home; horses; hour; house; idea; illustration; invention; iron; journey; killingworth; lamp; left; length; level; life; line; little; liverpool; locomotive; london; long; making; manchester; manchester railway; means; men; miles; moss; near; newcastle; north; number; object; occasion; parts; passengers; pit; place; power; present; pressure; progress; public; purpose; railroad; rails; railway; railway locomotive; road; robert stephenson; safety; set; sir; small; south; speed; steam; stephenson; stockton; subject; system; time; tons; traffic; trains; trevithick; tube; tunnel; wagons; water; weight; wheels; wood; work; working; workmen; years
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