. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . marked cleaned andoiled about llirce months ago. This carwas cut out, and as I wanted to knowwhat the trouble was. I cut it in. No aircame into the auxiliary, so I disconnectedthe crossover pipe at the triple to see ifthe strainer was clean. I found it per-fectly clean, and by opening the cut-outcock in crossover pipe air flowed freelyout of pipe, showing that the strainer in Now let us take a look into the locomo-tive equipment. An air pump was re-ported running hot, and, on being exam-ined, it was foun
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . marked cleaned andoiled about llirce months ago. This carwas cut out, and as I wanted to knowwhat the trouble was. I cut it in. No aircame into the auxiliary, so I disconnectedthe crossover pipe at the triple to see ifthe strainer was clean. I found it per-fectly clean, and by opening the cut-outcock in crossover pipe air flowed freelyout of pipe, showing that the strainer in Now let us take a look into the locomo-tive equipment. An air pump was re-ported running hot, and, on being exam-ined, it was found that packing ringswere badly worn, and instead of fittingtwo new ones and boring out air cylinder,as ought to have been done (as cylinderwas over 1-64 larger at ends than in cen-ter), only one new packing ring was putin. On fitting new receiving and dischargevalves at roundhouse (all the above refersto roundhouse work), ihcy are not giventhe proper lift. And why is it that theydo not put on a competent man, at least,who knows about air pump and brake-valve work, to make the repairs?. A VIEW OF THE AIR-BRAKE INSTRUCTION KOOM ON THE ERIE RAILWAY AT HORNELLSVILLE, N. Y. whole length of the cylinder. I have seenfast stock trains where half of the brakeswere defective for this one reason, andmost of the other ones were sufferingfrom something else, making it impossibleto stop where you want to. Triple valvesare not cleaned nor oiled, and are so badlygummed that they will only work in emer-gency. Air blowing out of the pressureretainers on account of defective rubberseat of emergency valve, is a commontrouble. I have found quite a few lately in thatcondition; also gaskets leaking betweenthe triple valve and the auxiliary reser-voir; leaking packing rings in triple pis-ton, causing brakes to stick; union loosenext to drain cup in train pipe, sometimes train pipe was all right, too. I then tooktriple valve down, and found it so badlygummed up and the feed ports cloggedsolid, so no ai
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