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dan

November 18, 2005 08:20AM

As many of you know because of this incident steam locomotives now have two sight or water glasses. One viewable by the Engineer and the previously existing one within the Fireman's view. The Tri-cocks are no longer mandated, and in some cases one or more of these cocks have been deleted to make room for the additional glass.
Redundancy does not eliminate the need to blow down both glasses frequently to make certain they are both giving a true indication of water level.

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Correct Procedure for blowing down a sightglass	Trevor Hartford	November 15, 2005 09:24PM
Re: Correct Procedure for blowing down a sightglas	Kevin Bush	November 15, 2005 10:26PM
Re: Correct Procedure for blowing down a sightglas	KWilcomb	November 15, 2005 11:03PM
Re: Correct Procedure for blowing down a sightglas	Gavin Hamilton	November 16, 2005 03:14AM
Re: Correct Procedure for blowing down a sightglas LINK	Linn W. Moedinger	November 16, 2005 06:18AM
Re: Correct Procedure for blowing down a sightglas	Trevor Hartford	November 16, 2005 09:06PM
Re: Correct Procedure for blowing down a sightglas LINK	Linn W. Moedinger	November 17, 2005 04:49AM
Re: Correct Procedure for blowing down a sightglas	fergy	November 17, 2005 05:51PM
Re: Correct Procedure for blowing down a sightglas	Bruce R. Pier	November 17, 2005 11:14PM
Gettysburg incident results	dan	November 18, 2005 08:20AM
Re: Correct Procedure for blowing down a sightglas	Rod Jensen	November 18, 2005 09:55PM
Re: Correct Procedure for blowing down a sightglas	Bruce R. Pier	November 18, 2005 11:35PM
Re: Correct Procedure for blowing down a sightglas	J.B.Bane	November 19, 2005 09:55AM

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