Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 116
nage the air-brakes. Thewheels are often red-hot, the shoe of the brakemelts. The problem of getting the train down isgreater, even, than the problem of hauling it up. What happens now with electric engines ? Thegreat engine itself acts as a brake on the train; igiS.] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG-… … ElUHT-HLXDKED-TON IASSE.MiEIl-TllALN HAULED BY AN ELUX^TIUC LOCOMOTIVE. turned into electricity. The engine, as it holdsback the train, uses the power of the pressure,changes it into electricity, and hands it up to thewire overhead. So that the very engine that hasbeen taking electricity from that…
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