. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Clamping Device for Cleaning Air-Brake Cylinders. Mr. C. E. Sherwood, formerly travel-ing engineer on the Northern PacificRailroad, sends us the following cuts of adevice which he has patented for clamp- statement by a recent experiment made onthe Pennsylvania Railroad, in which theaverage weight of five hundred 60,000pounds capacity freight cars was found tohave decreased nearly 1,600 pounds inthirteen months, thus increasing the brake Tlie Air-Brake Mens Proceedings. The interest now being taken in air
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . Clamping Device for Cleaning Air-Brake Cylinders. Mr. C. E. Sherwood, formerly travel-ing engineer on the Northern PacificRailroad, sends us the following cuts of adevice which he has patented for clamp- statement by a recent experiment made onthe Pennsylvania Railroad, in which theaverage weight of five hundred 60,000pounds capacity freight cars was found tohave decreased nearly 1,600 pounds inthirteen months, thus increasing the brake Tlie Air-Brake Mens Proceedings. The interest now being taken in airbrake matters could not be more forciblyillustrated, perhaps, than by the unusualdemand for the Proceedings of the Air-Brake Mens Third Annual ing the cylinder head onto the piston rodwhile cleaning. The cuts are self-ex-planatory to air-brake men, who willrecognize in the device a handy tool foruse in removing and replacing the partswhen cleaning the air-brake cylinder. Air Brakes in Qermany. The Prussian State Railroads haveadopted altogether the Westinghousequick-action brake in place of the Car-penter, formerly used on those South German roads never used theCarpenter brake. The Carpenter is nowonly retained by some of the small com-panies which fit all of their new work withthe Westinghouse.—Ex. Brake Power Increased by Cars LosingWeight. During the discussion which followedthe reading of the paper on FoundationBrakes at the St. Louis Convention ofAir-Brake Men, Secretary P. M. Kilroymade the somewhat surprising statementthat a new car would, on account of dry-ing-out of poorly seasoned timber, de-crease in weight from 500 to 1,000 pounds,and thereby raise the braking power con-siderably above the amount orig
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