. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . al and thecost of replacement. All of these matters bear a vital rela-tion to car capacity, and this will also beaffected by the capacity of the draft gearto absorb shocks. Naturally as the weightof the car increases the draft gear will becalled upon to perform greater servicewhen the same velocity differences areset \tp between cars in stopping withbrake equipment of outdistanced capacity,and, in starting with locomotives ofgreatly increased tractive effort. Ofcourse, all the punishment in m
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . al and thecost of replacement. All of these matters bear a vital rela-tion to car capacity, and this will also beaffected by the capacity of the draft gearto absorb shocks. Naturally as the weightof the car increases the draft gear will becalled upon to perform greater servicewhen the same velocity differences areset \tp between cars in stopping withbrake equipment of outdistanced capacity,and, in starting with locomotives ofgreatly increased tractive effort. Ofcourse, all the punishment in mixed trains will be on the draft gear of relativelysmall capacity cars, and if these are tobe spared during the transition period itwill be necessary to employ the mostmodern train control equipment Brake Cylinder Piston Rod Clamp. By T. H. H.^Hx, M.\chinist,Norfolk & \\esterx Railway,Bluefield, W. removing pistons from brake cylin-ders a variety of devices more or lessinsecure are used by air brake repairmachinists, and the annexed sketch showsthe details of a piston rod clamp that will. DETAILS OF BRAKE CVLIXDER PISTONROD CLAMP. be found ver> reliable for holding thespring securely in place in the brake cyl-inder where the plain piston sleeves areused. This clamp is easily constructedand quickly applied and held in place bya set screw, as shown, and prevents thepiston springs from jumping out whilethe piston is being removed for cleaningor renewing the packing leather. Developing Engine Failures. Bv Harvey De Witt Holcombe,Meadville, Pa. There are a great variety of opinionsas to the effects of engine failures; someroads figure their failures on the dollarand cents cost basis as money lost, whileother roads base their reputation on thehigh percentage of trains handled on time,and there are really only a small numberof roads which look on the failure recordin its true light—that is, as a means of ed-ucation to show up weakness or poor de-sign of equipment and to che
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