. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . o-matic air brakes, except when laden withthe commodities named hereinafter, andthen only when properly piped and com-plying fully with the Master Car Build-ers rules, and of railroad ownership, ex-cept as shown below. [Then follows a listof commodities consisting of perishableand other freights impossible to advan-tageously transfer—Ed.] Tank cars loaded with oil or otherliquids will not be received unlessequipped with automatic air brake. i i i Must Remove New York Brakes. The United States Circuit Cou
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . o-matic air brakes, except when laden withthe commodities named hereinafter, andthen only when properly piped and com-plying fully with the Master Car Build-ers rules, and of railroad ownership, ex-cept as shown below. [Then follows a listof commodities consisting of perishableand other freights impossible to advan-tageously transfer—Ed.] Tank cars loaded with oil or otherliquids will not be received unlessequipped with automatic air brake. i i i Must Remove New York Brakes. The United States Circuit Court for theDistrict of New Jersey has decided a casein favor of the Westinghouse Air-BrakeCompany against the Central Car TrustCompany and the Commerce DispatchCompany, whereby these two latter com-panies are required to remove infringingNew York air brakes from 1,400 carsv/hich they control. In reply to the defendants remonstrancethat they would be seriously incon- ■\enienced by removing 50 many brakes,tlie court pointed out that the defendantshad purchased these cars equipped with. Locomottvt SnglnteringFig. 1. TOP VIEW OP SHAW SLACK ADJlSTKIt. west of El Paso without the automaticair brake, the contents will be transferred,unless they consist of commodities namedhereinafter, in which case the cars will beaccepted for through service, if properlypiped for hauling in trains handled withthe automatic air brake, and if otherwisein good running order, complying fullywith the M. C. B. rules. infringing apparatus after being dulywarned by the Westinghouse Air-BrakeCompany that the brakes on the cars in-fringed their patents. The Westinghouse.■\ir-Brakc Company requested the re-moval of the infringing brakes and offeredto supply their own apparatus at a reason-able figure, but the car companies de-clined. Having been duly warned, and 434 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. September, iS having gone into the matter with openeyes, the defendants were therefore notentitled to any spe
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