The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-06-11
IEKED ROSE
THE RAIL IN THE '8OS
BY MB.DE COURCY

i the thought that we have all served
our time on it and came out alive. An
other thing III your 1avor-the old man
Is equippins the system with the new.
tangled automatic brake so it will be
much easier for a man unacquat-Ited
with mountain work to make 1t sue
cess; 1t gives you more air To Vorr
With Instead OF having your entire
supply stored in your engine reservoir
you have frll-charged train pipe and
auxiliaries additional"
| Its thing know little about" SAID
| Brady. my only experience has bean
with the three-way cock on a shifter or
what little noticed my engineer do in
service stops
| Wen, you are no worse Off than all OF
the Eastern men who come here About
all there Is of 1t Is to keep a level head
and remembr your pump can only lam
| SO much air, and that your life depends
upon how You hoard 1t; TO never forget
| that train holds harder on straight
lines than on curves; to always gauge
your train before 1t gets up in the
| air., and know, and surely, what your
brakes amount to; to always remember
| that coming back to lap Is where the
| fine work comes IN Always draw your
train pipe slowly, give it lime to equal
| ize. then put your bare hand over the
train line exhaust, bring your valve back
slowly. watch your gauge, when the
pointer stops falling. move warily, yet
a little further-we are talking about
fraction of hair breadths now-then
when the last faint blow fades from
your palm, STOP
J IF eight pounds serves to hold you to
an even speet! on uniform grade-ieaye
it alone-reInember that a train that Is
not gaining on you, is being held Don't
throw the stuff away in too heavy initial
i applications; every time you snub
train and release you are draining your
! stopping power. but if from train pipe
/ leakage you find yourself obliged 20 re-
lease, try to get to a let up or nest
of stiff curves. by whose aid. you can
accumulate full pressure, before your
train has gained a headIong speed.
Watch your pump closely on long appli-
cation-you are liable 10 burn cut
gland packfng-and above all else, keep
cool"
Jack said a graye-eye5I man who
had listened approvingly Z, his talk,
that Westinghouse sharp said old
George was laying awake nights in
Pfttsburg working on an independent
pump governor and an equalizins dis
! charge valve Did you hear anything
about it?''
yes. I have" responded French, ard.
old man. right in that proposed inver-
ton I foresee our finish, as mountain
experts.
How is .hat?'' asked the group. in
surprised concert.
IN this way" replied French. decided
". las IT is now. the few men who can
! set the brakes evenly on long train
ane not kick half of them en when
coming to lap. and who can overcome
the leakage upon long appiica ton, are at
a 6-cent per mile premium, bat this
thing. as I understand It. is to do these
very things automatically. thereby put
| ting every valve artist on the same
plane
Good thing for the companies, how
ever" he added. "'Two-thirds of the
scraps down these dumps were. caused
by the very thing that it oyercomes-
Yet another thing Brady. see You
are a hard man to scare, but you are
I'D against the real thing on that Huron
branch. You will find an old sx24. 90
inch trantula awaiting you; never ger
YOUR water under three gauges going up,
she has q 12-foot crown sheet and It at
times stands against 230 feet to the
. mile: with up to nine-degree curves
/. cooked to between seven TO eight lncnes
elevation. Know you are o. x before
starting back. You are only allowed to
bring six cars down, so II the boys cut
them into straight air it would be
wise not te notice it-you can get wick
eder work out of them-and your pump
can easily supply so short train line"
II wish Westinghouse had fallen into
| q hast furnace when a boy" groWled
!, an old fellow, the patriarch of the
group. .I can remember when L took
/. nv grub bucket out OF my seat at Well
er.s and had nothing to do for sixty
/, miles but eat, smoke, and keep water IN
:, the old Tweed and three husky shacks
j, out on top to do the work. But now
the speakers voice was drowned IN the
merry laughter.
Well said Brady arising, No. One
is about due; come John. If we are fated
10 tear holes in the Huron branch right
of way. the sooner we get at 1t the
better"