It's Steamy Sunday here on the Blog! Today's image is one that I don't think I have ever showed before, it is inside the cab of Locomotive 353 in Minnesota that I get to help fire on. I am usually scooping coal in through those "butterfly" doors (which operate with steam pressure by a pedal on the floor or the handle that is hanging down when no pressure) or I am sitting up in the left hand seat operating the Injector to get water into the boiler, the 2 valves you see on the very left. The pressure gauge is currently reading 0 but when we are operating it's sitting almost completely opposite at about 165 to 175, hopefully anyway. 😃 The "Sight Glass" for the water level in the boiler is just below that gauge. Most of the gauges and levers on the right hand side for the engineer are for braking. The bar that goes across just under the 2 gauges is the throttle. The lever next to the window on the right is the Forward/Reverse. A couple of pieces of equipment up above are oilers. The 2 levers hanging from the ceiling are for the whistle. There is one for the bell as well on the left. These are all the main things we are using and paying attention to while operating the locomotive with the most important being the pressure gauge and sight glass.
Looks rudimentary but I'm sure it isn't
ReplyDeleteIn some ways, I guess as it isn't as sophisticated as some.
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