. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . to therecorder inside the car by means of alength of rubber tubing for convenientobservation of the air-brake men. The train left Divide at about , at the point marked A, test wasmade to determine if the recorder was inoperative condition. At the point mark-ed B it will be noted the brake was ap-plied by making three reductions, be-fore release, which is also shown in thenext brake application. At the point being necessary. The cylinder pressureranged between 20 and 30 lbs. for aperi
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . to therecorder inside the car by means of alength of rubber tubing for convenientobservation of the air-brake men. The train left Divide at about , at the point marked A, test wasmade to determine if the recorder was inoperative condition. At the point mark-ed B it will be noted the brake was ap-plied by making three reductions, be-fore release, which is also shown in thenext brake application. At the point being necessary. The cylinder pressureranged between 20 and 30 lbs. for aperiod of about ten minutes on the 3 per Tenacious Work of the Air-BrakeConvention. The .\ir-Brake .\s50ciations motto isto improve the air-brake service railroads. It lives up to itsmotto in these conventions by workinghard while it works, but can play equallyhard while it plays. While the para-mount intent of the association is to dowork which will be forcibly felt andplainly seen by railroad companies, theair-brake men believe that there may bework as well as play at these TR.\IN PIPE AND BR.^KE CYLINDER PRESSURE CHART T.\KEN FROM CO.\L TRAIN DOWN JEROME PARK COAL BR.\NCH, MIDLAND RY. FOUR PER CENT. GRADE. NO HAND BRAKES USED. iS LOADED CARS. cent, grade. Practically a uniform speedof 20 miles per hour was maintained. Between E and F retaining valveswere not used on account of lightergrade. Between F and G the train It is doubtful if any of the railwaymechanical associations show as krgean attendance as greeted the presidentat each of the meetings which he calledto order in the morning at nine oclock 266 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING June, 1903. iji the convention hall. The first morn-ing, the meeting consisting of the mem-bers and their ladies, was what would beexpected in one of the larger mechanicalassociations. The second and thirdmornings attendance was greater andconsiderably more than is had at themeetings of the larger asso
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