The
Traveling Engineers’
Association

To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads

Examination Questions and Answers

For Firemen for Promotion and New Men for Employment :-:
Copyrighted by W. O. Thompson, March, 1911
Revised January, 1919

Contents

PREFACE[3]
EXAMINATION QUESTIONS: FIRST SERIES[7]
AIR BRAKE QUESTIONS[22]
EXAMINATION QUESTIONS: SECOND SERIES[25]
AIR BRAKE QUESTIONS[44]
OIL BURNING LOCOMOTIVES[47]
MECHANICAL EXAMINATION: THIRD SERIES[62]
COMPOUND LOCOMOTIVES[98]
WALSCHAERT AND BAKER-PILLIOD VALVE GEARS [113]
SOUTHERN VALVE GEAR[119]
LUBRICATION[120]
FEDERAL REGULATIONS[126]
PYLE-NATIONAL ELECTRIC HEADLIGHT[127]
SCHROEDER HEADLIGHT[141]
"BUDA-ROSS" ELECTRIC HEADLIGHT[143]
DUPLEX LOCOMOTIVE STOKER[154]
AIR BRAKE QUESTIONS[164]
INDEX[245]