. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . have always been more or lessconflicting concerning the difference be-tween the high speed and low speedbrake. The fact that a higher brake pipepressure is maintained with the highspeed brake does not necessarily meanthat a higher brake cylinder pressure re-sults from a 5 or ID lb. reduction thandoes from the same reduction in the lowspeed brake pipe pressure. Since thetriple valve delivers from the auxiliaryreservoirs to the l)rake cylinder a numberof pounds pressure equal to the
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . have always been more or lessconflicting concerning the difference be-tween the high speed and low speedbrake. The fact that a higher brake pipepressure is maintained with the highspeed brake does not necessarily meanthat a higher brake cylinder pressure re-sults from a 5 or ID lb. reduction thandoes from the same reduction in the lowspeed brake pipe pressure. Since thetriple valve delivers from the auxiliaryreservoirs to the l)rake cylinder a numberof pounds pressure equal to the amount pipe pressure the full volume and pres-sure of the auxiliary reservoir is equal-ized with the brake cylinder pressure,which would naturally result in a higherbrake cylinder pressure when the auxil-iary reservoir pressure is no lbs. Effect of Water in E. T. an engine equipped with the West-inghouse E. T. brake, the brakes wereslow in applying and when applied with .tfull service reduction there would onlybe about 35 lbs. pressure in the brakecylinders. Since the engineers brake. water had upon the E. T. equipment. Butthere are more evils than this with anyair brake equipment when water is al-lowed to travel through the system, espe-cially in cold weather. When the volumeof the main reservoir is decreased thewarm air. which will always hold moremoisture than cold air coming from thepump, has not sufficient time and space tocool and precipitate the moisture in themain reservoir, where it can be easily andfrequently drained away. Tlie warm air then goes into the brake pipe and triple valves, precipitating its moisture there to be frozen in cold weather, causing air brake failures. To Clean Paint. The fireman interested in keep-ing the bright work of an engineshining is becoming rare, butthere are some still at work andto these we give the followingrecipe for a compound good forcleaning paint: To one gallon of water add onequarter pound of borax and halfa pint o
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