. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . oftriple valves after full release, and a sin-gle train pipe only to accomplish all thisis almost beyond belief. The above is the remark made by aprominent railroad official at a recentclub meeting, while discussing the im-provements made in the Westinghouseair brake apparatus, and the results ofthe air brake demonstrations made sometime ago at West Seneca. , igo6. AND l.( )C()Mr)TI VIC KNfil Mi 27 Necessary Precaution. We have noted wliilc watcliiiiK airbrake inspec
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . oftriple valves after full release, and a sin-gle train pipe only to accomplish all thisis almost beyond belief. The above is the remark made by aprominent railroad official at a recentclub meeting, while discussing the im-provements made in the Westinghouseair brake apparatus, and the results ofthe air brake demonstrations made sometime ago at West Seneca. , igo6. AND l.( )C()Mr)TI VIC KNfil Mi 27 Necessary Precaution. We have noted wliilc watcliiiiK airbrake inspectors at work taUiiin upslack, and making repairs to tlic founda-tion gear of cars that were in trains, andcharged witli air, that tliey do not cutout the brake while thus engaged. While very few accidents have oc- the boiler. io make this experimentwork well, however, the engine shouldbe towed at a fairly good rate of I low would you manage with aburned or broken grate? How, if en-tirely gone, with deep ash pan? A,—With shallow ash pan, a support ofbricks and other like material may be. RESULT OF DKl-HCTIVU TRACK .4X KAILWAY. curred to inspectors because of neglectto take this important precaution to pro-tect themselves, yet there is a possibilityof the brakes applying, since it is auto-matic, without the inspectors help, andof his losing a few fingers or perhapssustaining greater injury. To be on thesafe side when taking up slack or apply-ing brake shoes, the brake should becut out. It is only the work of a mo-ment to do this, and when the repairsare made, the same to cut it in. built up, upon which the burned orbroken portions of the grate may besupported until the completion of thetrip. With a deep ash pan and grateentirely gone, one would find it neces- roundcd with dead ashes, then usingbrick or stone on top of that until spaceleft by burned grate is filled, will enableone to get the train in. With burnedgrates, it is generally the case that theash
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