. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . venting the removal of the pressure headfor inspection and repairs of the interiorparts. This is a matter which should be takenup at once and corrected, if we are toobtain anything like a maximum servicefrom our driving-wheel brakes. As to Abolishing the Quick ActionFeature. In regard to the suggestion to abol-ish the quick action feature of thetriple valve, as recommended by a cor-respondent in a recent number, it would If such difficulty as cited by the abovementioned correspondent is exper
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . venting the removal of the pressure headfor inspection and repairs of the interiorparts. This is a matter which should be takenup at once and corrected, if we are toobtain anything like a maximum servicefrom our driving-wheel brakes. As to Abolishing the Quick ActionFeature. In regard to the suggestion to abol-ish the quick action feature of thetriple valve, as recommended by a cor-respondent in a recent number, it would If such difficulty as cited by the abovementioned correspondent is experiencedfrom the air brake on railroads, it isdoubtless due to either the bad orderof the brakes, flagrant misuse of thebrakes, or something else of a kindrednature. It is not due to the quick actionprinciple involved. It would probablyrepay this correspondent, for his owninformation, to read up the history ofthe development of the quick actingbrake; he will certainly be very muchbenefited thereby. He will also, doubt-less, change his views as to the desira-bility of abolishing the quick action fea-. ARRANGEMENT OF SLACK FOR DRIVER BRAKES. seem hardly necessary to say that thissuggestion is not in line with goodmodern practice. The peculiar needs oflong freight trains in service some timeago demonstrated the necessity for abrake which would apply very quickly forin case of emergency, thereby reducingthe length of the stop in emergency,and not interfering with the servicefeature of the brake in service extensive tests held by the mastercar builders on the Burlington road in1886 and 1887 demonstrated the neces-sity for a brake of this kind, and aftercareful consideration and extensive ex- ture of the triple valve, and will becomean earnest convert of the device. Didnt Know a Flat Wheel When HeHeard It. Some of the cars that run on Thirty-fourth street, writes a kicker in the NewYork Sun who signs himself Indignant,are an absolute infliction. When a caris in moti
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