A. Stop and clean the fire if necessary. It will save fuel and labor during the remainder of the trip and may also save an engine failure.
75. Q. Should you examine the flues to see if they are stopped up and leaking, and inspect the grate and grate rigging carefully before leaving the engine at a terminal?
A. Yes, so they can be reported if necessary. Clean flues and grates working well make a vast difference in the success of a fireman, and a great many engine failures could be avoided by keeping the flues and grates in proper condition.
76. Q. How should cab lamps, signal lamps, oil cans and lanterns be cared for?
A. They should be kept clean, free from leaks and always filled and ready for service before leaving terminals.
77. Q. About how many drops in a pint of valve oil when fed through a lubricator?
A. About 4,500 drops.
78. Q. Assuming that five drops per minute are fed to each of two valves and one drop per minute to the air pump, how many hours would be required to feed one pint of valve oil?
A. About eight hours.
79. Q. Assuming that the engine is running twenty-miles per hour, how many miles per pint would be run?