Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock (1895) (14573871658)

Identifier: locomotiveengine08hill (find matches)
Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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C. T. McElvaney, ofthe M., K. & T. road, at Denison, Tex.,has in use a sand house in which one mandoes all the work for a large number ofengines, not very expensive to construct,and requiring in the three years it hasbeen in service less than $25 for repairs. A little study of the engravings willmake the construction of the house andthe plan of its machinery plain. The perspective view shows the house asseen from the outside : one side is on themain track, and engines can be sanded upthere ; the other side faces the roundhousetrack, and engines can be supplied there ;sand can also be shoveled from cars intothe bins from either track. The letter A, both in the plan andeleva- tioii, shows the heater coil of piping.The sand is shoveled into the heatei bythe man in charge. As it dries, it^fallsinto a trough lengthwise of the coils andis carried along by the worm B to thepit C where the chain elevator D takesit up to a small iron tank, from whichit runs freely through a spout /f into-
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End Elevation. 74 the revolving screen F. Here the sanddrops into tank G, while the stones anddirt go through the cone sieve and out-doors b)- the spout L. The dry sand runs from tank G bygravity into the pit H, and is there carriedby the elevator / and discharged throughspout y to the bins A A, from which spoutsare carried outside on either side of thehouse. These have movable spouts, muchlike the spout of an ordinary water tank, tocarry the sand to the engine boxes. When the spout is in the engine sandbox, the man that handles it moves a leverthat operates the valves of an air cylinderthat handles the slide of spout, and is posi-tive in operation. It cannot be left run-ning, as to let go the handle is to cause thesand to be shut off automatically. In this house, a small engine handles themachinery, and is run by steam brought400 feet from the shop boilers. One man dries 500 cubic yards permonth, working ten hours a day, and thereis always dry sand on tap. They formerlyhad four large