Excerpt from Practical Instructor and Reference Book for Locomotive Firemen and Engineers: A Practical Treatise Covering in a Thorough Manner the Railroad Man's Duties and How to Properly Perform Them Realizing that the. Locomotive Engineer who is all practical Without any technical knowledge of the con struction and Operation of the Locomotive is giving way to those who are more progressive, and who are ambitious enough to want to know the why and wherefore, the cause as well as the effect of the action of the different parts of the Locomotive. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.