. Railway mechanical engineer . s on the Prussian system equipijed. Ithas been estimated that at the end of 10 years a saving of60,000,000 marks will be ol)tained, after having paid forthe cost of the installation, as a result of the saving in wagesof the train crews alone. This brake is of a relatively newdesign and operates on a principle similar to the Westing-house brake. »,The Continental roads before the war endeavored to come to some arrangement for the application of a standard braketo all freight cars in order to facilitate the interchange oftraffic. The problem at that time was wheth
. Railway mechanical engineer . s on the Prussian system equipijed. Ithas been estimated that at the end of 10 years a saving of60,000,000 marks will be ol)tained, after having paid forthe cost of the installation, as a result of the saving in wagesof the train crews alone. This brake is of a relatively newdesign and operates on a principle similar to the Westing-house brake. »,The Continental roads before the war endeavored to come to some arrangement for the application of a standard braketo all freight cars in order to facilitate the interchange oftraffic. The problem at that time was whether the vacuumor compressed air brake should be used. Strangely enoughthe strongest advocates of the vacuum Ijrake were to be foundin .Austria and even during the war, tests and negotiationswere carried on Ijctween .Austrian and the German roads inan attem])t to .settle the matter between them, but the un-satisfactory closing of the war to those countries prevented anagreement being reached. It a])pear> by this extensive ap-. Passenger Car on Turntable Lead in the Station at Dusseldorf plication of the power brakes to the Prussian roads, an at-tempt is Ijemg made to force the compressed air brake on allother nations in central Europe if they want to participatein the exchange of equipment with the German lines. Whilethe use of automatic couplers is greatly desired to replacethe screw couplings on freight cars, plans have not beendeveloped sufficiently to pemiit of any definite action inthis respect. Car and Locomotive Building by Krupps During the war the munition plants in Germany were de-veloped and extended to a great degree and on the return topeace conditions plants have been seeking to recon-struct and ada]it their facilities to peace-time pursuits. The
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