. The Pennsylvania railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . brake in the world. The useof this brake places the train entirely underthe control of the engineer, and he can, by asimple movement of the hand, apply itwqth the utmost force, so as to almost in-stantly stop the train, or graduate it to anyspeed. He can as readily release the brake,so that, in case of danger, he can not onlysto
. The Pennsylvania railroad: its origin, construction, condition, and connections. Embracing historical, descriptive, and statistical notices of cities, towns, villages, stations, industries, and objects of interest on its various lines in Pennsylvania and New Jersey . brake in the world. The useof this brake places the train entirely underthe control of the engineer, and he can, by asimple movement of the hand, apply itwqth the utmost force, so as to almost in-stantly stop the train, or graduate it to anyspeed. He can as readily release the brake,so that, in case of danger, he can not onlystop his train, but back it at once. All thisis accomplished without any jar. The Lon-don Times, in describing an experimentwith this brake in England, said:— Its chiefadvantages are that it is very simple, verypowerful, always ready, and capable of beingapplied instantaneously by the engine-driverhimself, and this at the first suspicion of dan-ger. Some of the experiments made -withthis brake on the Pennsylvania Railroad havebeen w^onderful in their results. On the 17thof September, 1869, a train of six cars, run-ning down a grade of ninety-five feet to themile, at the Horseshoe Bend, on theAllegheny mountain, at the rate of thirty 80 THE PENNSYLVANIA INTERIOR OF PARLOR CAR miles an hour, was brought to a stand-still,in the presence of the Master Mechanics As-sociation, in a distance of four hundred andtwenty feet. At Altoona, the same train wasstopped in less than its own length. Recentlyimprovements have been made to this brake,by which it can be applied from the interiorof any car of a train, or upon the accidentalsevering of the train it will apply itself; andat a trial on the eastern division of the Penn-sylvania Railroad, made on the 20th of May,1873, the following results were obtained: After some experiments similar to thosegiven, and with like results, a trial was madeby applying the brake from the interior ofone of the cars. The rate of speed wasthirty-five
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