Brake Tests
År: 1913
Forlag: Pensylvania Railroad Company
Sted: Altoona, Penna.
Sider: 401
A Report Of A Series Of Road Tests Of Brakes On Passanger Equipment Cars Made At Absecon, New Jersey, In 1913
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Fig. 6.
BRAKE RIGGING, THE No. 3 CLASP BRAKE.
The third form of clasp brake, this rigging was used only in single car breakaway stops. It was with this
clasp brake rigging that the best stops were made.
Examples of Designations.
8 30 Sr 80 —Train stop with standard brake rigging at 30 m.p.h.
Full service brake application, old standard PM air brake equipment,
80 per cent., nominal braking power on cars.
BC 60 Esx 150—Breakaway stop with clasp brake No. 1 rigging
at 60 m.p.h. Emergency brake application, new complete pneumatic
brake equipment, 150 per cent., nominal braking power on cars, and
high braking power on locomotive.
M 60 SpE3 125—Train stop with clasp brake No. 2 rigging, 60
m.p.h. Partial service brake application followed by emergency brake
application, new complete pneumatic brake equipment, 125 per cent.,
nominal emergency braking power on cars.
BAF 60 E. 150—Breakaway stop with clasp brake No. 3 rigging
at 60 m.p.h. Emergency brake application, new complete electro-
pneumatic equipment, 150 per cent., nominal braking power on cars.
Flanged brake shoes.