. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . oir and likewise the brake to this equipment is the air signal-ing apparatus. You will notice this is only a small plant,but we believe it embodies all the generalinformation necessary to post men in theprinciples of the automatic air brake. I might say that we have also added to done four successive times, of auxiliaries to 70 pounds for eachtrial. At no time did it take over 8 min-utes. On one trial the air was all out ofauxiliaries in minutes. For the information of


. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . oir and likewise the brake to this equipment is the air signal-ing apparatus. You will notice this is only a small plant,but we believe it embodies all the generalinformation necessary to post men in theprinciples of the automatic air brake. I might say that we have also added to done four successive times, of auxiliaries to 70 pounds for eachtrial. At no time did it take over 8 min-utes. On one trial the air was all out ofauxiliaries in minutes. For the information of those who ex-pect to solve this problem, it is statedthat there were gages connected to thequick-action triple on the baggage carwhich showed train-pipe and auxiliarypressure on a duplex gage. The brakecylinder pressure was shown on anothergage. These gages were so placed thatthey were all plainly visible to the in-structor at the brake valve. He couldtherefore handle the brake valve and watchthe exact effect on pressures in car brakeequipment. All the brakes were lo-inch quick-action. Central Vermont Railroad at this place,is herewith sent you for illustration inLocomotive Engineering. The plant consists of a driver brake,tender brake, four passenger cars and onefreight car, with the average piping, feet of train pipe for the engine andtender, and at every forty feet a cross-over pipe with its cut-out cock to eachpassenger and freight brake. Attachedto the train pipe is a conductors the freight brake is a pressure-retainingvalve. Attached to each brake is eithera duplex gage or two separate gages, todisplay the action taken place at anymovement of the triple valve, and to showthe equalizing pressure at the various pis-ton travels. To operate the brakes we use the im-proved engineers equalizing dischargebrake valve, Plate E-6, over which is our school, valve-setting machine, sec-tional views of injectors and lubricators,which are not shown in our photograph


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