. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . master mechanic of theDelaware, Lackawanna & Western Rail-road, at Syracuse, X. V., for the benefitof the employes who wish to improve CONDUCTED BY P. M. ISELLIS. with a work bench 4/i x feet, a smallvis* and cupboards for stock and repairparts. The corner is also supplied witha steam and air gage testing pump. The rack is made of Georgia pine, fin-ished in natural wood. It is i6J4 feetlong, 3 feet wide, 6 feet high, and con-tains a complete air-brake outfit for anengine, tender, four freight cars
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . master mechanic of theDelaware, Lackawanna & Western Rail-road, at Syracuse, X. V., for the benefitof the employes who wish to improve CONDUCTED BY P. M. ISELLIS. with a work bench 4/i x feet, a smallvis* and cupboards for stock and repairparts. The corner is also supplied witha steam and air gage testing pump. The rack is made of Georgia pine, fin-ished in natural wood. It is i6J4 feetlong, 3 feet wide, 6 feet high, and con-tains a complete air-brake outfit for anengine, tender, four freight cars and twopassenger coaches, with piping and hosecomplete. pump, showing the main piston, revers-ing cylinder, reversing valve cap andmain team valve bush in section; anF-6 brake valve showing all the partsand passage-ways; sectional pump gover-nor, retaining valves, hose couplings, andall the smaller air-brake parts. A sec-tional F-27 triple valve is suspended on asmall iron crane, and can be swung outin the room for easy and clear men take great interest in the little. AIR-BRAKE INSTRUCTION ROOM. D., L. & W. R. R., SYRACUSE, N. Y. their knowledge of air brakes and air-brake practice. The room is painted alight drab color. It is heated in winterby steam, and is lighted with gas. A desk,thirty chairs, a 4 x 7-foot blackboard andseveral pictures showing cuts of the sev-eral parts of the air-brake equipment, con-stitute the principal furniture of theroom, and are not shown in the photo-graph. One part of this room (not shown inthe photograph) is set apart for air-brakerepairs, and here the larger part of therepair work is done. The corner is fitted The engine equipment consists of amain reservoir of 15,000 cubic inches ca-pacity. 50 feet of i-inch train-line feet of fi-inch signal line pipe, oneF-6 and one D-8 brake valve, one 8-inchand one o^-inch air pump, one pumpgovernor, one car drain cup. one duplexoperating air gage, one steam gage, andone duplex air ga
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