Q. If you were on the road and should discover that you had
low water, what would you do?
A. I would drop my load and hunt a high place for the front
end of my engine, and would do it quickly to.
Q. If by some accident the front end of your engine should drop
down allowing the water to expose the crown sheet, what
would you do?
A. If I had a heavy and hot fire, would shovel dirt into the
fire and smother it out.
Q. Why would you prefer this to drawing the fire?
A. Because it would reduce the heat at once, instead of
increasing it for a few minutes while drawing out the hot bed of
coals, which is a very unpleasant job.
Q. Would you ever throw water in the fire box?
A. No. It might crack the side sheets, and would most
certainly start the flues.
Q. You say, in finding low water while on the road, you
would run your engine with the front end on high ground. Why
would you do this?
A. In order that the water would raise over the crown sheet,
and thus make it safe to pump up the water.
Q. While your engine was in this shape would you not
expose the front end of flues'?
A.
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