. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . en; s ^ n ^ ^D —113 CJ— Oh! For Good Brakes! In the course of a paper read by Mr. Snow before the New England Rail-road Club, giving particulars of travels inNorway, he related the following .strikingincident: It was a bright and beautiful Sundaymorning when our party left Egge withfourteen carrioles to cross the mountain toUtvikeu. The writer of this article, hav-ing the smallest pony and being theheaviest individual in the party, and in thelead, started to go down the first descent be
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . en; s ^ n ^ ^D —113 CJ— Oh! For Good Brakes! In the course of a paper read by Mr. Snow before the New England Rail-road Club, giving particulars of travels inNorway, he related the following .strikingincident: It was a bright and beautiful Sundaymorning when our party left Egge withfourteen carrioles to cross the mountain toUtvikeu. The writer of this article, hav-ing the smallest pony and being theheaviest individual in the party, and in thelead, started to go down the first descent being very steep, thepony could not hold the carriole, and thedriver, a small boy of ten years old, wasof but little service in assisting the pony tohold back, and there being no Ross-Meehan brake shoes on the car, we wentsliding down the mountain with the carri-ole, boy, passenger and pony locomotive. with all his four drivers blocked. As therewas a precipice about a thousand feet highon one side, the writer looked carefully onthe other side for some automatic switchstand ; but as there was none in sight, hedecided to put his trust in Providence untilthe breeching should break. However, asall things come to him who waits, theride was finished and without seriousaccident. 38 □ PI fo o P Q top that feed directly on to the wedge andshoe, and in the center rib of the crownthere is a boss raised above the oil level,as shown in the left-hand cut; this feedsdirectly to the curved oil grooves on theface of the box next the wheel hub, asshown in the right-hand cut. The main oil cavity is not drained to oilwedges and shoes; the oil used for thispurpose can go to no other place, and theplaces that need oil are sure to get it. The boxes have provision for carryingthe underhung springs, and the cellar is oflight construction, easily removed andhaving an adjustable plate on the end to-keep up
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