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Shaking the Grates-working it

September 20, 2006 06:10PM
Soni Honnegger, a Swiss-born engineer on the C&TS, showed me a film of the Swiss Railways' last rotary-locomotive, at work. Part of the filming was cleaning the fire. The fireman had to go don in the pit and clean the fire,in the the ash-pit from the back of the ash-pan!
As Alexis de Toqueville pointed out in his seminal assessment of America as a young nation, that efficiency in business was essential. As a result, dumping a fire on an American boiler is far more efficient (and easier)!
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Shaking the Grates

Charlie McCandless September 19, 2006 07:24PM

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Charlie McCandless September 20, 2006 04:37PM

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Greg Scholl September 20, 2006 05:18PM

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El Coke September 20, 2006 06:10PM

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