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 228
box and theback driver run off the wedge. The front driver shouldthen be run on a wedge, thus relieving the back springrigging, the forward end of the equalizer pried up andchained to the lower rail of the frame, or the forward endof the back spring blocked down (Fig; 1, Plate 96) andthe forward… … FIG. 2—PLATE 96. Equalizer Broken at the Fulcrum with UnderhungRigging. If an equalizer is broken at the fulcrumon an engine with underhung spring rigging the backdriver should be run on a wedge, a block placed ontop of the forward driving box and the driver run 218 BREAKDOWNS. off the wedge. The…
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