. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rm of brake for personal rea-sons. Is it not possible that I may havesome ideas worth looking at? SupposeI were to come to Mr. Desoe and claimthat I had a plan for brakes that would re-quire a great deal less volume and pres-sure of air to operate; one which needno excess pressure, and which require,but one size cylinder for all cars; wouldwork well in a train of other brakes, and article, is rathi i Whal I want d to show was that, in i pite ol tin i >| ii loi i MM iiivc builders like X u i Baldw in.
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rm of brake for personal rea-sons. Is it not possible that I may havesome ideas worth looking at? SupposeI were to come to Mr. Desoe and claimthat I had a plan for brakes that would re-quire a great deal less volume and pres-sure of air to operate; one which needno excess pressure, and which require,but one size cylinder for all cars; wouldwork well in a train of other brakes, and article, is rathi i Whal I want d to show was that, in i pite ol tin i >| ii loi i MM iiivc builders like X u i Baldw in. Mai on and otht i s who hadof their own. the link, on il own di iven .ill thi othi i foi m out i, tenci and that, •»>. «ithoul 1 ing madethe standard by anj a 01 iation ] W, , I ml. [Our correspimdenl een to losiof the fact that the adoption ol tandard(onus for couplers and air brakes has beenbrought about by a body of practical, ex-perienced men whos< everj daj issocia-tion with these devices in all classes ofservice renders them ably lit I legislate. tiw JSnffiw ring Fig. 2 THE DOWNING AUTOMATIC SLACK ADJUS I I R perform other functions that the presentsystem cannot perform. I believe he-would say to me that he didnt want tolook at anything or have anything to dowith any plans outside the M. C. B. standards. If I undertook to reason withhim, very likely he would tell me that Iought not to set up my judgment againstnumerous men who had studied the subject. That is the way others in similarpositions talk, saying at the same timethat, even if the M. C. B. Association hadmade a mistake, it is too late now to cor-rect it. I think Mr. Desoes inference, drawnfrom the quotation he makes from my for their own needs. These standardshave been adopted after the same carefulconsideration and experiment that rel-egated the wooden springs on trucks, andestablished the superiority of the linkmotion for locomotives as described inthe above article. If our co
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