. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ick acting fea-ture. He should brush up a bit on airbrake history and air brake practices. Quite a spirited discussion was had onthe High Speed Brake at the May meet-ing of the Central Railway Club. At the Burlington brake tests of 1887there were 50 cars equipped with West-inghouse plain triples, and the shocksat the rear end of the train were so se-vere that it was found impracticable touse loaded cars in making these tests,as the loads would go through the endsof the cars. If, with a train
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ick acting fea-ture. He should brush up a bit on airbrake history and air brake practices. Quite a spirited discussion was had onthe High Speed Brake at the May meet-ing of the Central Railway Club. At the Burlington brake tests of 1887there were 50 cars equipped with West-inghouse plain triples, and the shocksat the rear end of the train were so se-vere that it was found impracticable touse loaded cars in making these tests,as the loads would go through the endsof the cars. If, with a train of 50 cars, all equippedwith plain triples, the head brakes applyso much sooner than the brakes on therear of the train, that it allows the slackto run in and produce such disastrousshocks at the rear end, I think it wouldproduce still worse shocks if the trainwas only partially equipped with airbrakes. The removal of the quick-action partswould practically convert the quick-ac-tion triple into a plain triple, and it hasbeen practically demonstrated that thisstyle of valve would not give satisfac-. Rnilway j- Locomotive En^inecHnff CRANE IN OPERATING POSITION. gency application), the brakes are ap-plied at rear end of train before theslack has a chance run in and produceshocks sufficient to shift loads or startends of cars. I do not think it would be practicableto abolish the quick-action valves intriple. The statement made by that we would never miss it, aswe never use it, is not exactly right,if it read They are used a great manytimes when it is not necessary I thinkit would be nearer the truth. E. S. BOTTOMLY, Foreman Car Inspectors N. Y., N. H. &H. R. Haven, Conn.
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