. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . EVOLUTION OF THE AIR PUMP VALVH. the first of the coaches to be changedto the new brake, and on these tripsit was my practice to cut the engineand cars into automatic and use thatbrake while on these trips. With thisexperience and a book containing ageneral description of the apparatus,literature on the subject at that timebeing extremely limited and no air brakeinstructor to appeal to, I was able togather considerable knowledge of the brakes operation, while at the sametime I understood litt
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . EVOLUTION OF THE AIR PUMP VALVH. the first of the coaches to be changedto the new brake, and on these tripsit was my practice to cut the engineand cars into automatic and use thatbrake while on these trips. With thisexperience and a book containing ageneral description of the apparatus,literature on the subject at that timebeing extremely limited and no air brakeinstructor to appeal to, I was able togather considerable knowledge of the brakes operation, while at the sametime I understood little of the philosophywhich contributed to the results I foundmyself able to obtain by proper brakevalve manipulation. For instance, bylapping the brake valve when approach-ing a stopping point the brakes releasedmore freely than otherwise, the three-way cock of that period not being ar-ranged for obtaining excess pressure. was attached to the main reservoir ofengines on our division. The time for our initial trip was ap-liroaching, and pretty soon Jim Brownrame rolling into Burlington with
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