Air Brake of the Science of Railways (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Air Brake of the Science of Railways This new and improved locomotive and tender brake equipment is known as The New York Automatic Control Equipment. It is claimed by the manufacturers to furnish all the advantage ous features Of the combined automatic and straight air brake. The apparatus is the same for all locomotives, and the Auto matic Control Equipment can, therefore, be applied to passenger engines hauling either high-speed trains or ordinary passenger trains, and to locomotives in freight or switching service, or for double pressure control Operation. The locomotive and train brakes can be used together. Or the locomotive brakes separately. As desired, and it makes no differ ence in What part of the train the locomotive is located. The {brakes can be applied as lightly or as heavily as desired, and the brake pressure so obtained will be automatically maintained in the locomotive brake cylinders, in spite of leakage or variation of piston travel. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.