. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . any general manager or superinten-dent of motive power to investigate whatis being done in this line on his and otherroads. The railroad officials have an ideathat the air brake is expensive to main-tain. So it is, when done this way; butby proper care it is not. Another thing that has a tendency to in-crease the cost of maintenance is the fearof some men that the rubber gaskets willnot of themselves make tight joints, sothey coat them with white lead ground inoil, and in some cases with varnish. Theresu
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . any general manager or superinten-dent of motive power to investigate whatis being done in this line on his and otherroads. The railroad officials have an ideathat the air brake is expensive to main-tain. So it is, when done this way; butby proper care it is not. Another thing that has a tendency to in-crease the cost of maintenance is the fearof some men that the rubber gaskets willnot of themselves make tight joints, sothey coat them with white lead ground inoil, and in some cases with varnish. Theresult in the one case is rapid deteriorationof the gasket. In the other the gasketsticks to the metal surface and tears whenit is necessary to separate the parts, thusmaking renewal necessary. Another point that is worthy of atten-tion is the practice of coating the hosecoupling gasket with oil, to make it slipin easy. Oil and rubber arc enemies, andthis should be thoroughly impressed onthe men doing this work; if it is necessaryuse a club to do so. Unfortunately, there are still some men. Locomotive Engineering PISTON TRAVEL RECORDER FOR AIR BRAKES. DESIGNED BY FRANK ROBINSON, BANGOR, ME. thrown away by the ignorance of the mencaring for the brakes. In the first placethis road is taking proper and economicalcare of their brakes, and is living up tothe Master Car Builders rule, that foreigncars on their line shall receive the samecare as their own. No repairs are madethat are unnecessary, and what repairs aremade are intelligently and well done. The question of lubricating brake cylin-ders is an important one, but the writerdoes not propose to go into it furtherthan to call attention ^ to the prevalentpractice of attempting to fill the brake cyl-inder with car oil. Some repair men mustbe under the impression that the brakecylinder is an oil cylinder and should befilled with oil. judging from the conditionof many I saw. I have before me the re-port of defective cars passing Nashvil
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