. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . concerned. It must be confessed that I did notlook for much encouragement from thehead of the motive power department,knowing as I did his propensity for blue-penciling requisitions for G-6 brakevalves, sent in each month by a progres-sive master mechanic located at a re-mote point on the road and the fact,too, that the S. M. P. had finally writtenthis official that when he wanted anybrake valves he would, himself, give in-structions to that effect. In time, how-ever, the looked for opportuni
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . concerned. It must be confessed that I did notlook for much encouragement from thehead of the motive power department,knowing as I did his propensity for blue-penciling requisitions for G-6 brakevalves, sent in each month by a progres-sive master mechanic located at a re-mote point on the road and the fact,too, that the S. M. P. had finally writtenthis official that when he wanted anybrake valves he would, himself, give in-structions to that effect. In time, how-ever, the looked for opportunity present-ed itself, as a change of managementtook place and the new^ officers werenot slow in observing the generally de-ficient brake conditions prevailing, a re-sult of which, to me, was an invitationto visit the road, a request I ver>-promptly accepted. Reaching head-quarters I was met by one of these newofficials who had, by the way. a consid-erable knowledge of automatic brakes,though somewhat limited from a prac-tical standpoint, but who fully appre-ciated the serious conditions and was. STEEL ARCH SPIDER-LEGGED WOODEN STRUCTURE reflected on the brake apparatus had watched this condition of affairswith very great interest, meanwhile fre-quently indulging the hope that some-thing might turn up which would openthe way to my getting in touch with thesituation, as I felt sure when the real most anxious for their prompt correc-tion. In company with him a call wasmade on the general manager, duringwhich time the subject of air brakes wasvery fully canvassed, and in reply to nu-merous questions I was quite able topoint out and criticize the general air 540 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING December. 1906. brake conditions existing, such as ob-solete apparatus on both engines andcars; deficient driving wheel brakes onsome engines and too high brake poweron others, a result of one standard con-tour of spread brake cams; the great di-versity of braking pow
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