. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . pleasedto hear some expressions of opinions onthis subject. William S. Foreman L. & N. R. R. Covington, Ky. [The article referred to by our corre-spondent was based on the paper recentlyread by Mr. G. L. Norris, ancl a synopsiscan be found on page 16 of our Januaryissue. The paper has been reprinted infull by the Standard Steel Works of Phil-adelphia and a copy of it may be had by ISO RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING April, 1908. applying to them for one. The illustra-tions use
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . pleasedto hear some expressions of opinions onthis subject. William S. Foreman L. & N. R. R. Covington, Ky. [The article referred to by our corre-spondent was based on the paper recentlyread by Mr. G. L. Norris, ancl a synopsiscan be found on page 16 of our Januaryissue. The paper has been reprinted infull by the Standard Steel Works of Phil-adelphia and a copy of it may be had by ISO RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING April, 1908. applying to them for one. The illustra-tions used in this reproduction are, as wesaid last month on page 127, the verybest, and the article is well worth study.—Ed.] Pleasant and Instructive :A special meeting of the Catawissa chamber pressure reduces, the brakewill leak off without giving any warn-ing. It was at this time considered un-necessary to state that under ordinaryconditions, if a leak existed in the ap-plication chamber of the distributingvalves, the brake cylinder pressure re-maining constant would force the main. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY HEAVY 4-6-° ENGINE. Air Brake Club was held Thursdayevening, Feb. 27, 190S, at Catawissa,Pa., Mr. James Cook, president. H. Whitney, of New York City,one of the Westinghouse Air BrakeCompanys representatives, gave theclub a very instructive and interestingtalk on the air brake in general, fromthe three-way cock and plain triple upto the present time. There were thirty-nine members present at the meetingand everyone was very much benefitedby his address and would be very glad tohave him visit us at any time. Paul R. Henry, , Pa. piston to release position as the appli-cation chamber pressure weakened, andthe exhaust of brake cylinder pressurefrom the distributing valve would warnanyone working about or oiling the en-gine that the brake has released. It was left to the reader to infer thatin order to avoid the possibility of thebrake releasing f
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