. The Street railway journal . gtrouble to get it to sell and someone else to get it to burn. We are all in-volved, but the degrees of embarrassment vary. The man who needs a scut-tlefull to start his fire is not up against it as hard as the man who needs4 tons to start his fire, for the scuttle is easier to fill than the 4-ton wagon. The Detroit United Railway needs 10 tons a day to heat its cars alone—300tons a month. We burn about 1500 tons of coal in our cars between Nov. 15and April 15. It is coming just as hard for us to get coal as for the man whostarts his furnace with a scuttlefull an
. The Street railway journal . gtrouble to get it to sell and someone else to get it to burn. We are all in-volved, but the degrees of embarrassment vary. The man who needs a scut-tlefull to start his fire is not up against it as hard as the man who needs4 tons to start his fire, for the scuttle is easier to fill than the 4-ton wagon. The Detroit United Railway needs 10 tons a day to heat its cars alone—300tons a month. We burn about 1500 tons of coal in our cars between Nov. 15and April 15. It is coming just as hard for us to get coal as for the man whostarts his furnace with a scuttlefull and then goes up stairs to read the is coming (jry much harder for us to get coal, in that we need coal dealer fills the scuttle before the wagon. We have fallen upondinky lots of coal with the avidity of the hungry rooster upon the succulentworm. We have bought odd carloads, odd boatloads, odd pockets-full. Wehave used soft coal, coke and wandering fragments of anthracite. We aredoing our best. That is December 27, 1902.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1011 Railroad Car Braking* BY R. A. PARKE The special advantages of compressed air for the transmissionof the power throughout trains of considerable length have estab-lished the air brake in a pre-eminent position. At first, the com-pressed air was stored in a reservoir upon the locomotive and, bymeans of a pipe, extending throughout the length of the train, andan operating, valve upon the locomotive, it was conducted to thebrake cylinder upon each car, by which the brakes were applied tothe wheels, through the intervention of suitable rods and time required to convey the necessary volume of compressedair from the storage reservoir upon the locomotive to all the brakecylinders of even a comparatively short train, and the total dis-ability resulting from rupture at any point of the air conduit,caused this form of air brake to be supplanted by the automaticair brake, in which an auxiliary storage rese
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