Kirkman, Marshall M. (Marshall Monroe), 1842-1921 · New York and Chicago, The World railway publishing company · leaf 386
LOCOMOTIVE APPLIANCES. 377 automatic air brake on the drivers, and stop thetrain. By the use of this device engines can bereversed suddenly while running at a high rate ofspeed, without strain or damage to any portions ofthe machinery or boiler. RICHARDSON COMBINED PRESSURE AND VACUUMRELIEF VALVE.… … Fio. 7.Richardson Combined Pressure and Vacuum Relief Naive. running shut off, and thus furnishes a free supply ofair from the outside instead of its being sucked in 378 LOCOMOTIVE APPLIANCES. from the smoke-box laden with hot gases and cinderswhich lap all oil from the valves and seats. The…
Locomotives
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