. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . r brakes youwant without money by getting up a smallclub of subscribers for this paper. Writeus about it. % % % The papers have been full of death no-tices of the oldest locomotive engineer lately ; must have been lots of em. A Model Air=Brake Instruction Plant. Following is an illustration and descrip-tion of an air-brake schooling room re-cently installed in the shops of the Penn-sylvania Company, at Renovo, Pa., whichwill doubtless prove interesting to all, andespecially instructive to those of onr re
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . r brakes youwant without money by getting up a smallclub of subscribers for this paper. Writeus about it. % % % The papers have been full of death no-tices of the oldest locomotive engineer lately ; must have been lots of em. A Model Air=Brake Instruction Plant. Following is an illustration and descrip-tion of an air-brake schooling room re-cently installed in the shops of the Penn-sylvania Company, at Renovo, Pa., whichwill doubtless prove interesting to all, andespecially instructive to those of onr read-ers who contemplate the erection of a sim-ilar plant at some future time. J. W. Sheldon, traveling engineer and equipment. Air-signal equipment, reduc-ing and diaphragm valves are situated inright-hand corner. Duplex gages to showpressure in main reservoir, train line,auxiliary reservoir and brake cylinders areplaced on side of walls. Stirrups are fast-ened to all cylinders, with blocks to regu-late travel of piston and to show thepressure at all points of travel from 4 to12 Air-Brake Instruction Room, r. Siior, Riixovo, P.\. air-brake instructor of the P. & E. Division,conducts the classes, which assemble atregular intervals for instruction. En-gineers, firemen, conductors and brake-liien are notified by bulletin several daysin advance of each meeting, and are askedto come prepared to discuss certain .speci-fied subjects. In this way all classes ofmen are kept in touch with the air brake,and all local annoyances are discussed andcorrected. The officials of the division giveit tlieir hearty support, and already havebeen brought to appreciate its value as aneducator. Pump for supplying air is located inmachine-shop boiler room, about onehundred and fifty (150I feet distant. Mainreservoir and all pipes are placed underfloor, in basement. The first, or top cyl-inder, represents a tender equipment, plaintriple with one sectional, connected ;second cylinder undernea
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