. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . saw somethingthat took my eye. It was a check-valvcinthe train-pipe close to the driver-braketriple-valve set at 20 pounds, so you couldnot set the driver-brake till the train-brokewos set tight, and then it would take engineer said all their engines werefixed that way and it worked bully: driver-brake shoes would last a year, enginedidnt ride hard, wedges and boxes didntget any shock, I says to him That wouldbe a good thing on a dining car. wouldntshake up the victuals when you make a flystop.
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . saw somethingthat took my eye. It was a check-valvcinthe train-pipe close to the driver-braketriple-valve set at 20 pounds, so you couldnot set the driver-brake till the train-brokewos set tight, and then it would take engineer said all their engines werefixed that way and it worked bully: driver-brake shoes would last a year, enginedidnt ride hard, wedges and boxes didntget any shock, I says to him That wouldbe a good thing on a dining car. wouldntshake up the victuals when you make a flystop. Not much,says he, dont want hold of a fast stock t and wailed for the other car on Ibe train, when wc pulleddown to the main line switch. 1 set thebrake pretty tight. Before it had time tolake hold on the train we got a signal tocome ahead. 1 let it off, and Billy sangout, ■ Hold on. your air aint workingright. How do you teU? says 1.■ -Cause, says he. ■ you hear a long blowof air from train line exhaust when you there: you couldnt stop apan of the cars had th st the engine and t. the lii)th- tile East trymg to arrange a test uf hisIUgiuc with somo of the olhcr locomotivesmedy thin that were on exhibition. Hcisparticulorlyto the re- anxious to try the powers of hi» engineDiToctual against the New York Centrals gf(gbuta pre«iure the company decline to go into any race ork proMure te«t. The Bnldwin people say that theyagniiwt the lifgh-prewiure pinion. To pre- arc quite willing to run their enginesvent ihe live Ktcnm in the receiver from against the Jumc» Tolemon on ordi-working against the hlgli-prc»urc pUlon nary hard fast train service, and they arein sliirling the inloreeptlng-vulvc wok in- sulisflcd that thoy will not come out of thevented. contest with anything to regret. This is orries i> generally given the not the kind of triol Mr. Winby wanu. butjuting the intorccpting-valve, it is probobic that he will consent to iti;signed that It clones the puss- when a
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