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 233
ward end of the back equalizer 1 chained, orblocking placed between the safety hanger and theequalizer 2. If there is no safety hanger or chain, ablock should be placed between the forward end ofthe back spring 3 and the lower rail of the frame. 222 BREAKDOWNS. The back end of the forward equalizer… … PLATE 101. Back Equalizer. If the back equalizer is broken atthe fulcrum on an engine with underhung spring rig-ging, the back driver should be run on a wedge, ablock placed over the middle driving box, the backdriver run off the wedge and the middle driver runon a wedge, relieving the back spring.…
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