. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . LEVI JOHN RAUTH. early discovered the importance of havinga safety brake which, while doing its or-dinary work, would give notice and stopthe train should anything happen to thebrake to put it out of order. It was onthis basis, then, that Mr. Westinghousedesigned the automatic brake. While the automatic brake on the WallsAccommodation was being tested, thenew automatic attachment was being dis-cussed much by the railroads, many ofwhom took steps to place it upon theircars. A series of interesting
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . LEVI JOHN RAUTH. early discovered the importance of havinga safety brake which, while doing its or-dinary work, would give notice and stopthe train should anything happen to thebrake to put it out of order. It was onthis basis, then, that Mr. Westinghousedesigned the automatic brake. While the automatic brake on the WallsAccommodation was being tested, thenew automatic attachment was being dis-cussed much by the railroads, many ofwhom took steps to place it upon theircars. A series of interesting tests of theimproved attachment was held on theEastern Railroad, in Boston, in April, 1873, and made such a good impressionthat many of the roads started in imme-diately to equip their trains with the newbrake. About this time, the vacuum brakewas struggling hard in its efforts to be-come the leading power brake, and manyinteresting and exciting competitive trialswere made between the vacuum brake andtlie Westinghouse automatic. The engineer who ran the first auto-matic brake was Levi Close, whose
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