Modern locomotive engineering, with questions and answers .. (1913)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & co · leaf 522
neer and train crew whenever a brakesets, releases or sticks, leaks off or has too much pis-ton travel, and locates defective triples and enablesthe trainmen to release the brake while the train isrunning, without having to get off the car. It islocated on the top at the end of freight cars… … izC^,_oi^ AUTOMATIC AIR BRAKES 513 and, like the slack adjuster, is piped direct to the brakecylinder, so that whenever there is sufficient pressurein the brake cylinder to apply the brake, the samepressure causes the signal to appear above the top ofthe car in full view of the train crew, and when…
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