Factors entering into production of shocks in long trains by making of brake applications; brakes applied from locomotive apply serially from head end toward rear end which results in head end being retarded first; consideration of great importance is that of track condition at points where brake applications must be made. Contribution of Pittsburgh Air Brake Club to Air Brake Assn. (See also Ry. Mech. Engr., vol. 102, no. 8, Aug. 1928, pp. 443-444)
Relation of the air brake to slack action and shocks in trains
Ry. Age
Railway Age ; 84 , n 18
1928
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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