Locomotive text for engineers and firemen; a complete treatise on the engine, electric head-light and standard code of train rules (1908)
National correspondence school of railroading, Chicago. [from old catalog] · [Chicago] · leaf 214
FIG. 1—PLATE 82. If an engine truck wheel or axle is broken on a con-solidated or ten-wheel engine, the engine truck frame canbe chained to the main frame, as described, but insteadof using a fulcrum under the pilot beam, the forward BREAKDOWNS. 203 drivers should be run up on wedges, which would… … FIG. 3—PLATE 82. 204 BREAKDOWNS. BROKEN PONY TRUCK CENTER PIN, EQUALIZEROR HANGER. In case the center pin of a pony truck or the front endof a long equalizer should break, place a fulcrum underthe forward end of the long equalizer and move the en-gine back, raising the front end of the long…
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