. Railway master mechanic . m the numerous letters which I have re-ceived on the subject of air brakes on freight carsfrom men best able to speak with authority, I con-clude that the pressing reqiiireuicnts are: 1. Tin- I -I ■■-11 ■! il,. I ,. - of interchange of cars, tha- : - itial part ot a car, and thai ; - n working order. 2. Thai li I- in ,1 .- I aiii rumpanies to pro-vide the ul ^ and repairing the airbrakes on all freight cars that pass over their lines. At a meeting of the Central Railway Club, heldApril 8, a valuable report upon the inspection and re-pair of fr
. Railway master mechanic . m the numerous letters which I have re-ceived on the subject of air brakes on freight carsfrom men best able to speak with authority, I con-clude that the pressing reqiiireuicnts are: 1. Tin- I -I ■■-11 ■! il,. I ,. - of interchange of cars, tha- : - itial part ot a car, and thai ; - n working order. 2. Thai li I- in ,1 .- I aiii rumpanies to pro-vide the ul ^ and repairing the airbrakes on all freight cars that pass over their lines. At a meeting of the Central Railway Club, heldApril 8, a valuable report upon the inspection and re-pair of freight car brakes was presented by the com-mittee which had been appointed for that follnwirg is a very liberal from it: The Ithe bra 1,1 n,. Ill, I, -li, lilt,,rmation at the corn-is that air-brake apparatus on freight cars is generally neg-lected, resulting in a low average coDdilion of the brakes,and showing that fully 25 per cent, of the cai-s now inter- May, 1891 THE RAILV^AY MASTER MECHANIC. leaks ul defects ai-u easily uud quickly rcuiiii-cd or remedied, such as taking up slack, cleaning and oiling triples or cylinders, and repairing leaks ■ : to Cleaning and oUiug triple valve; cleaning and oiling cyl-inder; taking up slack in connections; putting uew rubberseat on emex-gency valve, when necessary (when leatherseat is found it must bo replaced by rubber seat in all cases), 50 ; leak in main pipe, when section of pipe Repairing triple valve gasket, 30 cents. In order to obtain the use .if bi-ake apparatus ou ea)ing interchanged, it ^condition of the freight . ~many foreign cars, witliThe question arises, as tncost of the work. It is , , ,period of railroad affairs, liiu aii-icars is coming to be eousiUereipai*t of a freight car as a door or ;without either, but thev wereshould be in a condition to fullill iadmitted,owner ofwhen found ing the freighto obtain tsystem of inspectThis should be in^change. It should The object will li. if
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