Locomotive appliances . ss pressure in the reservoir overthat in the train line, and it is important that thisexcess should always be at least twenty or twenty-fivepounds. The location of the air gauge on the loco-motive is shown in the plate The American SteamLocomotive, part numbered 207.* The duplex air brake gauge is usually so designedand constructed that each spring, while actingentirely independent, registers its movement throughits own index hand upon the same circle of air brake gauges are subject to such wide andrapid variations that their construction must be of thever
Locomotive appliances . ss pressure in the reservoir overthat in the train line, and it is important that thisexcess should always be at least twenty or twenty-fivepounds. The location of the air gauge on the loco-motive is shown in the plate The American SteamLocomotive, part numbered 207.* The duplex air brake gauge is usually so designedand constructed that each spring, while actingentirely independent, registers its movement throughits own index hand upon the same circle of air brake gauges are subject to such wide andrapid variations that their construction must be of thevery best. * The Air Gauge is described and illustrated in The Science ofRailways, in connection with the exposition therein of the AirBrake, and the reader is referred to the general index of that workfor reference to further information on the subject. LOCOMOTIVE APPLIANCES. 105 The standard Westinghouse type of duplex airgauge, as manufactured by the Ashcroft Manufactur-ing Company, is shown in Figs. 24 and 25. From the.
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