Locomotive engine running and management .. (1899)
Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919 · New York, J. Wiley & sons; [etc., etc.] · leaf 317
length of trains and character of the road—whetherlevel or with long and severe grades. Ordinarily 15to 20 pounds excess pressure is ample for the safeoperation of brakes on the ordinary railway. RELEASE POSITION. While the handle is in position 1, for releasingbrakes, air from the main reservoir… … Fig. 27. Fig. 24. THE WEST1NGH0USE AIR-BRAKE. 269 valve, and finally to ports /and I1 and the train-pipeat Y. Port/ in the rotary valve and e in its seat arein register in this position, and admit air to chamberD above equalizing-piston 47, and, passing thencethrough ports s and sf charges the…
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