. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ld the steam locomotive, to fit it to the needsof the electric type, and to substitute forthe steam-driven air compressor and thecompressor governor electrically drivenand operated apparatus that perform sim-ilar functions. In order that our readers may keepposted on the changes necessary in theautomatic brake to adapt it to electricservice we illustrate in this issue themethod of piping an electric locomotive,and in future issues we shall illustrateand describe the electrically driven andope
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ld the steam locomotive, to fit it to the needsof the electric type, and to substitute forthe steam-driven air compressor and thecompressor governor electrically drivenand operated apparatus that perform sim-ilar functions. In order that our readers may keepposted on the changes necessary in theautomatic brake to adapt it to electricservice we illustrate in this issue themethod of piping an electric locomotive,and in future issues we shall illustrateand describe the electrically driven andoperated apparatus. then be taken to the end facing the direc-tion in which the locomotive is to run andbe replaced on the other set of brakevalves. These handles can only be re-moved when the brake valve rotaries areon lap. It will be noticed that there are threetrain pipes instead of two, as is the cus-tom with the steam locomotive. Two ofthese train pipes comprise the well-knownautomatic brake pipe and the air signalpipe, while the third, called the main res-ervoir pipe between locomotives, serves. .\KR.\Nr,l£M|-:Nr OK .\IR COMPRKSSOR, RESERVOIRS, PIPES, CYLINDERS, ON ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE. be capable of holding on a grade of twoper cent a train whose total weight isthree million pounds, or a train of twentyone-hundred-thousand-pound capacity do this, of course, would require thatthe train be bunched against the locomo-tive, if it is in front of the train, or that itbe stretched, if the locomotive is in therear, at the moment of stopping. A prac-tical test of this would probably show thata few more cars than the number givenabove could be held standing on a twoper cent grade, since no account of thefriction in the journal boxes and otherparts was taken into account in the esti-mate given above. Air Brakes on Electric Locomotives. The introduction of the electric loco-motive into service on steam roads hasmade it necessary to modify somewhatthe piping arrangement of
Size: 2020px × 1237px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectrailroa, bookyear1901
