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I. C. fire-fighting

✍ Scribed by R.H.O.


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1938
Tongue
English
Weight
53 KB
Volume
225
Category
Article
ISSN
0016-0032

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✦ Synopsis


rVol. io3, No, I3.)

As extra safeguards to freight and to roadside property, all switch engines and several road engines on the Illinois Central are now equipped to serve as fire fighters at a moment's notice. This fire engine fleet consists of 350 locomotives in service in terminals and other congested areas on the railroad. Each locomotive carries its own supply of water together with a specially treated cotton, rubber-lined hose with a nozzle and necessary connection, all of which can be attached quickly. A stream of water can be thrown 6o feet at the rate of IOO gal. a minute. The tender on each locomotive has a capacity of from 8,ooo to IO,OOO gal. of water.

R. H. O.


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