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Lesson. In Manhattan, a victim of robbers ran to a firebox, turned in an alarm, got 30 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

...chooses one of the center tracks, shoulders aside a local, and cases its hard, smooth body into the train shed like a tired athlete sliding into bed between the sheets. It sight placidly once or twice, then relaxes. Vag stands beside the engine, his pipe glowing like a miniature firebox...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VAGABOND | 11/5/1938 | See Source »

...Class 1 repair is a new boiler. Class 2 is a new firebox. Class 3 are the more frequent general repairs to machinery, firebox, tires or flues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Bars Banned | 6/28/1937 | See Source »

...pulling perishable freight, clipped 3½ hours off its running schedule. Built by Baldwin Locomotive Co. in 1923, No. 4113 was a 2-8-4 type (two pilot wheels, eight drivers, four trailers) equipped with a Baker valve gear, a Chicago K45 lubricator, a radial stay type firebox. With a total heating and superheating surface of 5,450.9 sq. ft. this engine developed a tractive effort of 59,800 Ib. While 60 different engine crews were operating No. 4113 to make the record, David L. Forsythe, Frisco's equipment foreman, rode every mile. Every five days he would leave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Chuffer | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...powerful locomotive in the world will soon be completed. Generating 6,000 horsepower, it could pull, over a level track, a train two miles long. For its thirst it requires 14,400 gallons of water per hour; for its hunger, 20 tons of coal in the same period. Its firebox is the size of a portable garage. With its tender, it weighs one million pounds and is as long as half a city block. Designed chiefly for work on steep grades, it will haul across the Rockies trains that now creep slowly onward with the aid of two engines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Locomotives | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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