Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-15
INak1ng Steam Zocnm0tlUe II011ek That HctnQ/y Rnu
Transportation Expert Of Interstate Commerce
Commission Chvishes Curious Hobby.

gargantuan Iron horses" which draw trans
continental trains from Atlantic tidewater to
the Seacoast Sidelines of the placid Pacific.
The basement shop at the Glove home is
equipped with footpower lathe with home
made milling attachment, drill press vice,
grindstone, workbench and complete set Of
wood and iron working hand TOOLS 1t is a
headquarters of transportation in more ways
than one, for the walls are decorated with 800
pictures of splitting, snorting locomotives Of
every type, model and size known to engineer
ing science. These Photographic shots" from
all corners of the compass describe pictorially
the evolution of railroading draft power. The
historical locomotives of the United States and
IA foreign countries are represented in the
unique collection.
Mr.. Glow has been studying international
transportation history, its existent and ancient
problems for the past Is years. He is in accord
with the current publicity trend that pictures
tell the tale tersely and correctly and hence
has gathered together all the photos which
he could assemble from foreign magazines
newspapers trade publications and similar
sources. His pictorial photography of trans
portation is one of the most curious and COM
plete of its kind ever complied 1t includes
material from the British Isles, France Ger
many, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, Norway, Spain,
Portugal, Switzerland and Alsace-Lorraine.
A MONG the interesting photographs is one
OF the first locomotives operated over an
Iceland railroad system. Despite that the frigid
country of Iceland was discovered about 1000
years ago, the authorities waited until 1918 to
build and dedicate its first railroad. Another
historical picture that attracts your eye is
that Of the first Chinese-ma locomotive run
regularly over tracks of steel in faraway Cathay.
All American locomotives are represented from
the pioneer built by Matthias Baldwin. when
knickerbockers were in style. up to the titanic
Pacific type engines of modernity with their
batteries OF six huge drivewheels.
One division Of the Glow picture history Of
transportation, which features other traction
power than steam locomotives, is also instruc-
tive. 1t spans the gap from the primitive
trovays Of France, the two-wheeled OK cart of
Africa and the novel kayak of Alaska to the
camel, elephant, coach and four prairie
schooner, bicycle and modern automobile
The frame or running gear of one of the
Glow models of a steam locomotive is made Of
mild steel cut with a hack saw, drilled and
filed to the desired dimensions and shape.
The ordinary boiler of approximately 81 inches
diameter and IA inches in length is made of
copper and fitted with brass tubes in Simula-
ton of those found in full scale railroad
engine. This boiler is fired with either a mix
ture of coke and soft coal sievings or else fuel
that consists exclusively of fine screenings
The boiler is provided with distinctive CRATES
and supplementary ash pan attached to the
frame which can be dumped whenever neces-
Sary.
The average boiler in one of Mr.. CLOVIS
steam locomotives will carry go pounds of steam
pressure comfortably while its maximum ca
pacity is about 80 pounds. It is simple mat
ter to revive dead fire and develop full steam
pressure in approximately 10 minutes. Fresh
shavings and coal are used to kinde the fire,
while special pump inserted through the
brass smoke box door at the fore Of the engine
is employed to produce the essential draft and
create a vacuum for a quick fire. This
vacuum draws the fame in starting the loco