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Locomotive Running Repairs HITCHCOCK, L.C. [GEN'L. FOREMAN OF "SOO LINE" SHOPS]

Locomotive Running Repairs

HITCHCOCK, L.C. [GEN'L. FOREMAN OF "SOO LINE" SHOPS]

Other works by HITCHCOCK, L.C.

Publication: Debs Publishing company, 1893, Terre Haute

6" x 4" in flexible leather covers with title in gilt on front cover. 108 pp. plus an additional 9 pages that have been removed from a Samuel Harris & Co. book (title unknown) and permanently inserted into the manual. "In this little book the author says that it has been his desire to give, in language as concise as possible, some methods of making running repairs on locomotives, which, from personal observation, he knows to have been productive of good results, and that the book is more especially calculated to benefit machinist apprentices and those inexperienced in this class of work. The writer, it is thought, has succeeded admirably in his purpose. It is clearly written and well illustrated, and all the instructions are expressed in language which any apprentice ought to be able to understand. In the different chapters the following subjects are discussed : Grinding in Brass Valves, Cocks, etc. ; Rods, Setting up Wedges, Tramming; Springs; Setting Slide Valves; Flange Wear; Shoes and Wedges; Driving Boxes; Washing Boilers; Moving Eccentrics; Back Cylinder Head; Guides; Tire Wear; A Time-Saving Wheel Truck; A Signal Holder. The author discusses a range of subjects which do not often receive consideration in other books on the locomotive. He explains methods and appliances for doing work, and gives diagrams to show how to proceed, and has that comparatively rare faculty of understanding his subject thoroughly and then of placing himself in the attitude of mind to it which a person who does not understand it must occupy." Additional 9 pages offer information weight of metals, weight of sheet iron, table of areas and circumferences, number of revolutions of driving wheel, weight of round and square iron, table of decimal equivalents, etc. Bottom corner of entire booklet water-stained; interior pages lightly soiled from use; FFEP moderately soiled and with "Private Library" stamped to the top along with a name (Henry H. Hapke ?) written in pencil beneath; RFEP moderately soiled. Notes written in pencil on the first and last pages of the booklet and with light wear to spine ends and extremities. Still good or better.

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