1928 Locomotive Firing Roundhouse Tender Booster Work

~~~ titled firing of locomotives / by j. W. Harding / 506 / published by international textbook company / copyright 1928 ~~//~~ this masterfully written and profusely illustrated book is in would-be mint condition. Seemingly never even fully opened.

Pages are clear and supple! Tightly intact inside of midnight blue embossed, thin leather covers, (with cobalt/gold on teal marbled endpapers). 59 + sharply drawn line cuts, (some amazing) fold-outs, and engraving print figures are found profusely throughout this text! Depicting all sorts of locomotive work and equipment including reverse lever parts, booster control construction, hand tools, burner adjustment, fire door details, blow-back device operation, baume hydrometer instruments, engine appliances, firebox arrangement +++. Great condition for a hard-working book of its age!

Slight edge wear is the only small flaw to the outside of this 80-year-old original. iMld page toning is the lone thing keeping the interior of this 5 by 7 3/4 beauty from being mint. That's it! Its 166 blue edged, heavy rag pages have no brittleness foxing rips tears dogears odor wrinkles waving marks of anykind or even a fingersmudge. A complete list of the sections, (and a sample of the many chapters) contained within includes hand firing of locomotives firing coals of the eastern states ~ coals and their combustion gas coals / best steam coals / gases in the coal / tar distilled from coal / smokeless coals / slack coal / ash from coal / foreign impurities / clinkers / mixing coals + ~ conditions for economical combustion draft of locomotives / draft restrictions / failure of engine to steam / scale and soot / waste at pop valve / cooperation of engineer and fireman + ~ details of firing preparing fire for start / prep of coal / method of firing / firebox temperature / placing the coal on the fire / swinging the fire-door / starting the train / heavy firing / firing poor-steaming engines / shaking the grates / filling the firebox / holes in the fire / waiting on sidings + ~ combustion ~ chemical elements and compounds elements / coal and wood / mixtures + ~ theory of combustion illustration of combustion / products of / air required / processes occuring in the firebox + ~ smoke formation / prevention ~~~//~~~ oil-burning locomotives petroleum discovery of petroleum / flash point and burning point / use of oil as a fuel / expansion of fuel oil + ~ oil-burning equipment ~ one-burner system ~ oil-tank arrangement tank piping / oil manhole / drain valve / tank heater / sand box / engine and tender connections + ~ locomotive arrangement oil superheater / oil feed-cock / oil-regulator rigging / oil regulator / damper regulator + ~ firebox arrangement history of improvement / vertical-draft system / horizontal / fire-door / fire-pan + ~ types of burners von boden-ingalls burners / booth burner / sheedy-carrick / baldwin locomotive works burner + ~ adjustment of burners ~ two-burner systems oil regulating rigging / fore-pan arrangement / hammel + ~ operation of oil-burning locomotives roundhouse inspection / work in oil tanks / use of superheater / duties before departure / forcing the fire / sanding the flues / use of blower / slipping of engine / drumming / handling equipment on the road / putting engine on roundhouse + ~ oil-burner troubles precautions against fires / fire drags on bottom brick / obstruction in burner / fire goes out / leaky flues / overheated crown sheet + ~~~//~~~ type c2 locomotive booster description ~ construction and operation types of boosters / names of parts / general operation of boosters / booster engine not reversible + ~ description of parts ~ booster engine cylinder casting / crank-shaft and crank arms / valve gear + ~ booster control system idle-gear rocker and gear / reverse-lever pilot valve / dome pilot valve / booster throttle valve / cylinder-cock operating cylinders + ~ operating instructions taking over engine / idling the booster / taking slack / cylinder cocks / keeping booster engine warmed up / leaving locomotive at terminal + ~ operation cutting in the booster / out + ~ the tender booster ~ disorders air leaks / gears do not engage / hobknobbing gears / pistons stuck / blow at dome pilot valve.