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A new one'll cost thirty dollars, and I don't know where the money's coming from to buy it. And the fire-box is most worn through." "Well, mother, we'll see what we can do," said Edward. "You're always seeing what you can do, but I notice you never do anything," retorted Hannah; and Edward had the wisdom not to reply.
A new one'll cost thirty dollars, and I don't know where the money's coming from to buy it. And the fire-box is most worn through." "Well, mother, we'll see what we can do," said Edward. "You're always seeing what you can do, but I notice you never do anything," retorted Hannah; and Edward had the wisdom not to reply.
A small tank above the furnace holds the liquid, and a pipe feeds it automatically to the fire-box. The result of this excellent arrangement is spontaneous conversion into flame, a uniformly hot fire, cleanliness aboard the engine, a total absence of cinders, and almost an absence of smoke. The absence of a tender gives the engine a peculiar, bob-tailed appearance to the unaccustomed eye.
Callahan's tank has been bone dry for twenty minutes, and he is watching the glass water-gage where the water shows now only when the engine lurches heavily to the left. He knows that the crown-sheet of the fire-box is bare, and that any moment it may give down and the end will come.
He hurried back and forth between the tender and the fire-box, crouching to keep his balance, struggling with the heavy logs. He was covered with soot, and the sweat made tiny rivulets in the black as it streamed down his body. His shirt had been caught by a puff of wind and carried out of the cab. He lifted the lid of the fireman's seat and threw his coat and cape into the box.
Stephenson, in getting the engine put in order for the Patent Office Museum, certainly did not cut off the fire-box shown in Mr. Nasmyth's sketch, and replace it with the sham box now on the boiler. If our readers will turn to our impression for the 30th of June, 1876, they will find a very accurate engraving of the South Kensington engine, which they can compare with Mr.
Now I'm going to send a man over to snoop around Pennington's roundhouse and verify his report about the switch-engine being in the shop." He did so. Half an hour later the messenger returned with the information that not only was the switch-engine not in the shop but her fire-box had been overhauled the week before and was reported to be in excellent condition.
A new one'll cost thirty dollars, and I don't know where the money's coming from to buy it. And the fire-box is most worn through." "Well, mother, we'll see what we can do," said Edward. "You're always seeing what you can do, but I notice you never do anything," retorted Hannah; and Edward had the wisdom not to reply.
It was hurling past the Pacific Flyer, an arrow of golden flame. Light from the fire-box splashed the under side of the trailing smoke. Instantly the vision was gone; Carol was back in the long darkness; and Kennicott was giving his version of that fire and wonder: "No. 19. Must be 'bout ten minutes late." In town, she listened from bed to the express whistling in the cut a mile north.
"This is the last of it," answered Tom. He kicked the two logs which lay on the tender floor, ready to be shoved into the fire-box. Andrews went to the tender and gathered the men about him. "What we'll do from here on," he said, "depends upon whether the Rebs come through that bridge. If they don't get through, we'll have time enough to gather fuel and burn the bridges ahead of us.
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