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Re: Train poster
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lugnet.trains
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Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:03:32 GMT
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> Handbrake, I believe.
Yes, they are handbrakes.
> EVERYTHING (that might enter interchange service) has to have a handbrake, if I
> am not mistaken, even locomotives that normally are powered have that
> requirement.
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> Why? Sometimes locomotives are shipped from place to place and set out on
> sidings, with their diesel off. In that case you'd want to be able to set the
> handbrake so the locomotive doesn't roll away.
It doesn't particularly matter- the way that brakes are dealt with on trains now
is that they are a fail on device. I think that the hand brake wheel is to take
the brakes OFF rather than put them on- I don't do enough with NA stuff to know
for sure, but I know that 26L and all westinghouse brakes are fail on rather
than fail off (If the air pressure drops to 0 psi, the brakes go full on)
James
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| (...) Frasier River gorge, then? (...) Handbrake, I believe. EVERYTHING (that might enter interchange service) has to have a handbrake, if I am not mistaken, even locomotives that normally are powered have that requirement. Why? Sometimes (...) (20 years ago, 10-Feb-04, to lugnet.trains)
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