Modern locomotive engineering, with questions and answers .. (1913)
Swingle, Calvin Franklin, 1846- [from old catalog] · Chicago, F. J. Drake & co · leaf 701
discharges the air from the pipe betweenit and the automatic brake valve. Beyond the main-reservoir cut-out cock, the reser-voir pipe has four branches, one of which runs to theautomatic brake valve, one to the feed valve, one to thereducing valve, and one to the distributing valve. As aresult, the… … ET BRAKE EQUIPMENT 673 matic brake valve has a branch to the top of the excess-pressure head of the duplex pump governor. The third branch of the reservoir pipe xonnects withthe reducing valve. Air at the pressure for which thisvalve is set (45 pounds) is thus supplied to the indepen-dent brake…
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