1 24 Book of Locomotives 



red-hot cinders. From this cause has sprung 

 many a fire, both on the railway and off; 

 there are several cases on record where a 

 whole train load of coaches or trucks has 

 been set alight through a red hot dis- 

 charge from the locomotive chimney, 

 and many efforts have been made to 

 intercept the sparks, but only with partial 

 success. 



With this short description of the boiler 

 in its shop, we will hurry on to another 

 department in this birthplace of the loco- 

 motive. Let us now go to the cylinder 

 shop and see how another part of the loco- 

 motive is fashioned from shapeless steel. 

 The pair of cylinders for our six-coupled 

 goods engine is cast in one block of steel. 

 Then the cylinders are bored by wonderful 

 tools, which work just as easily as if they 

 were working a piece of soft wood with a 

 gimlet. Once the cylinders are bored there 

 comes a great deal of work in fitting them 

 with pistons, piston rods and connecting 

 rods. Careful packing has to be done in 

 order that they shall not leak. The cylinders 



