1911 EDITION

LOCOMOTIVE CATECHISM

A PRACTICAL AND COMPLETE

WORK ON THE LOCOMOTIVE - TREATING ON THE DESIGN,
CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR AND RUNNING OF ALL KINDS OF
LOCOMOTIVES. INCLUDES INFORMATION ON THE AIR-BRAKE,
THE WALSCHAERT VALVE GEAR, THE ELECTRIC HEADLIGHT,
AND OTHER MODERN IMPROVEMENTS OF INTEREST ΤΟ
FIREMEN, ENGINEERS, TRAINMEN, SWITCHMEN, SHOP AND
ROUNDHOUSE MEN.

Contains over

3,000 Examination Questions with their Answers.

INCLUDING MOST OF THE OFFICIAL QUESTIONS USED BY PROMI-
NENT AMERICAN RAILWAYS IN EXAMINING FIREMEN AND
ENGINEERS FOR EMPLOYMENT AND PROMOTION.

BY ROBERT GRIMSHAW, M. E.

SCIENCE

Fully Illustrated by 437 Engravings and Three Folding Plates

TWENTY-EIGHTH REVISED EDITION

NEW YORK:

THE NORMAN W. HENLEY PUBLISHING COMPANY

132 NASSAU STREET

1911

By THE NORMAN W. HENLEY PUBLISHING CO.

By NORMAN W. HENLEY & CO.

ΤΟ

Theodore N. Ely,

Superintendent of Motive Power, Pennsylvania Railroad,

IN APPRECIATION OF HIS

ENGINEERING AND EXECUTIVE ABILITY

AND HIS

COURTESY AND MANLY QUALITIES.

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