. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . them, they makellie car very bright at niglittime. There is aworking model and full working equip-ment for the steam heat. The car can beheated cither from the boiler or train. The car is lighted with Pintsch gas, andalso oil lamps and incandcsccnts. It issupplied with camp stools. We have alsoblueprints and drawing—in fact, nearlyeverything I could find that might be abenefit in this line of information. We have the ten freight brakes arrangedso as to give them any travel from 3inches to 11 inches, and
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . them, they makellie car very bright at niglittime. There is aworking model and full working equip-ment for the steam heat. The car can beheated cither from the boiler or train. The car is lighted with Pintsch gas, andalso oil lamps and incandcsccnts. It issupplied with camp stools. We have alsoblueprints and drawing—in fact, nearlyeverything I could find that might be abenefit in this line of information. We have the ten freight brakes arrangedso as to give them any travel from 3inches to 11 inches, and this can be done Ice and Water in Freight Brake Cylin-ders. Editor: Some roads have experienced troublewith brake cylinders on hopper bottomcoal cars where the cylinders are locatedat the outer edge of a car on the side seems that in ascending a grade in rainyweather, the rain strikes the piston sleeve,follows down the sleeve and lodges in thebrake cylinder. In cold weather, the waterso entrapped freezes, rendering the brakeinoperative. To avoid this trouble a %-inch hole is. INTERIOR VIEW OF THE HOUSTON S: TEXAS CENTRAL AIR-BRAKE INSTRUCTION CAR, LOOKING TOWARD THE OFFICE. with a berth and desk and other suitablearrangements. At the other end is theboiler, with the coal tank on one side andthe water tank on the other. These tanksare made in a triangle form, so as to givemore room around the boiler. We havethe full equipment for driver brake, tankbrake, passenger brake and ten freightbrakes, with all necessary valves and gagesin working order on one side of the car. Overhead are the full piping and valvesfor ten cars of signal. On the other sideare all of the sectional, and complete partsof the air brake and all the others. The dynamo for the headlight is alsoused for the incandescent lamps, and as in a few seconds. There are several otherarrangements which show the defectiveworking of any part very plainly. We havearranged and put up all of the apparatusin the car so
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