. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . & N. W. Ry. [Thanks.—Ed.] Concerning Question 316. On page 51, question Ji6, of the Stand-ard Examination Questions and Answerson the .Mr Brake, I find the following:When a car with burst train-pipe is put swer to question 316 were carried out,this accident could scarcely fail to followin case of train parting at said point. Forthe air would go on full on the leadingpart of train, while rear car would not bebraked at all and would inevitably run intoother section in a very short time. Theman
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . & N. W. Ry. [Thanks.—Ed.] Concerning Question 316. On page 51, question Ji6, of the Stand-ard Examination Questions and Answerson the .Mr Brake, I find the following:When a car with burst train-pipe is put swer to question 316 were carried out,this accident could scarcely fail to followin case of train parting at said point. Forthe air would go on full on the leadingpart of train, while rear car would not bebraked at all and would inevitably run intoother section in a very short time. Theman on the disabled car could do no morethan set the hand-brakes, with, of course,nothing like the retarding force which theair would exert on the other cars. Hencea collision would result. So the thing to do would be to hang upair-hose on disabled car and close angle-cock on back end of the car just P. Payson. New York City. [This question and answer are intendedto cover a case where the train-pipe on acar intermediate in the train should burstor become disabled, thereby rendering the. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TESTING CART, BY H. H. FORNEY, AIR-BRAKE INSPECTOR. on the rear end of a passenger train, whatprecautions should be taken? The an-swer given is, practically: Couple uphose between disabled car and one ahead,dosing angle-cock on disabled car, butleaving angle-cock on other car open, soif train should part there, brakes will seton forward section of the train. It iswell, if practicable, to have a man remainon the disabled car all the time. This, I think, is wrong. The great dan-ger in a break-in-two is. as we all know,that the rear section will overtake and col-lide with the forward section, resultingin a serious, possibly fatal, wreck. If the order of procedure given in an- cars behind the disabled car switching the disabled car to the rearend, coupling up the hose, closing the an-gle-cock on the head end of the disabledcar and opening the one on th
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