The Westinghouse E-T Air Brake Instruction Pocket Book: A Complete Work Explaining in Detail the Improved Westinghouse Locomotive Air Brake Equipment, Including Both the No. 5 and the Latest, Perfected No. 6 Style

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N. W. Henley Publishing Company, 1909 - 242 стор.

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Сторінка 229 - Contains examination questions and answers on the ET equipment. Covering what the ET Brake is. How it should be operated. What to do when defective. Not a question can be asked of the engineman up for promotion, on either the No. 5 or the No. 6 ET equipment, that is not asked and answered in the book. If you want to thoroughly understand the ET equipment get a copy of this book. It covers every detail. Makes Air-Brake troubles and examinations easy. Price $1.50 MACHINE-SHOP PRACTICE American Tool...
Сторінка 235 - TRACTIVE POWER CHART. A chart whereby you can find the tractive power or drawbar pull of any locomotive without making a figure. Shows what cylinders are equal, how driving wheels and steam pressure affect the power.
Сторінка 232 - Light are given. It commends itself at once to every Engineer and Fireman, and to all who are going in for examination or promotion. In plain language, with full, complete answers, not only all the questions asked by the examining engineer are given, but those which the young and less experienced would ask the veteran, and which old hands ask as "stickers.
Сторінка 236 - Revised pocket edition. It is out of the question to try and tell you about every subject that is covered in this pocket edition of Locomotive Breakdowns. Just imagine all the common troubles that an engineer may expect to happen some time, and then add all of the unexpected ones, troubles that could occur, but that you...
Сторінка 236 - It is out of the question to try and tell you about every subject that is covered in this pocket edition of Locomotive Breakdowns. Just imagine all the common troubles that an engineer may expect to happen some time, and then add all of the unexpected ones, troubles that could occur, but that you had never thought about, and you will find that they are all treated with the very best methods of repair. Walschaert Locomotive Valve Gear Troubles, Electric Headlight Troubles, as well as Questions and...
Сторінка 230 - By WM. W. WOOD. If you would thoroughly understand the Walschaert Valve Gear you should possess a copy of this book, as the author takes the plainest form of a steam engine — a stationary engine in the rough, that will only turn its crank in one direction — and from it builds up — with the reader's help — a modern locomotive equipped with the Walschaert Valve Gear, complete. The points discussed are clearly illustrated ; two large folding plates that show the positions of the valves of both...
Сторінка 235 - GONDOLA CAR CHART. A chart showing the anatomy of a gondola car, having every part of the car numbered and its proper reference name given in a reference list 20 cents PASSENGER CAR CHART.
Сторінка 229 - Westinghouse Engine and Tender Brake Equipment, including the standard No. 5 and the Perfected No. 6 style of brake, is treated in detail. Written in plain English and profusely illustrated with Colored Plates, which enable one to trace -the flow of pressures throughout the entire equipment. The best book ever published on the Air Brake.
Сторінка 236 - LOCOMOTIVE BREAKDOWNS AND THEIR REMEDIES. By GEO. L. FOWLER. Revised by WM. W. WOOD, Airbrake Instructor. Just issued. Revised pocket edition. It is out of the question to try and tell you about every subject that is covered in this pocket edition of Locomotive Breakdowns.
Сторінка 234 - Air-Brake Equipment, including the No. 5 and the No. 6 E.-T. Locomotive Brake Equipment; the K (Quick Service) Triple Valve for Freight Service; and the Cross-Compound Pump. The operation of all parts of the apparatus is explained in detail, and a practical way of finding their peculiarities and defects, with a proper remedy, is given. It contains...

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