. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . operation. Here was introduced the air-lirake in-structor, who was appointed and sent out CONDUCTED BV F. M. iNt:LLI5. phuils were installed at the terminal round-houses or shops; and one or two shopsmade the extreme venture of equippingan old baggage or passenger car with anumber of brakes, and sent it out in chargeof the instructor who passed over the sys-tem, stopping at division points, to givethe men air-brake instructions. This carsystem of instruction seemed to be themost effective, an
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . operation. Here was introduced the air-lirake in-structor, who was appointed and sent out CONDUCTED BV F. M. iNt:LLI5. phuils were installed at the terminal round-houses or shops; and one or two shopsmade the extreme venture of equippingan old baggage or passenger car with anumber of brakes, and sent it out in chargeof the instructor who passed over the sys-tem, stopping at division points, to givethe men air-brake instructions. This carsystem of instruction seemed to be themost effective, and numbers of roads fol-linvtd. until to-day there is scarcely a road between instruction work in the car andin inspection work about the roundhouses,shops and yards. This latter feature ofwork soon manifested an importancewhich required a considerable part of theinstructors time. In some but twoor three days per week were spent in thecar and the remainder in this inspectionwork. Roads which adopted this mannerof dividing the instructors time are roadswhose air-brake service to-dav is in the. A TROLLEY C.^R EQUIPPELl WITH THE M.\GNETIC BRAKE. to impart air-brake information to engine-men and trainmen. In the very earlycases, the instructor would ride with theengineers, giving them simple instructionsin handling the brake, and would also tellthe trainmen something. He would alsoinstruct yardmen in that part pertainingto the maintenance of uniform piston trav-el, etc. It soon became evident that oneinstructor could not possibly reach all ofthe men as frequently as necessity de-manded. In some cases small school in the country which has not an air-brakeinstruction car or air-brake terminal plantsof its own. These methods of conveying air-brakeinformation to the men proved all that w-asdesired from an instruction point of , the mere instruction of the mendid not insure a positive good air-brakeservice, as the maintenance of the brakesoon became one of the most imp
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