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Re: IND accident of 1936 |
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Posted by randyo on Sat Dec 29 22:39:39 2012, in response to Re: IND accident of 1936, posted by Wayne-MrSlantR40 on Sat Dec 29 22:26:39 2012. On most prewar NYCTS equipment, due to each car having only a single brake cylinder for all the wheels of the car, the hand brake applied the brake shoes to all 8 wheels of any car on which the handbrake were applied. On postwar cars that have 2 brake cylinders per truck handbrakes only apply on the #1 truck which is closest to the handbrake. Since the Multis had 2 brake cylinders per truck like postwar equipment, I would imagine that their handbrakes applied only to the closest truck to the handbrake also. The Bluebird did not have any handbrakes since their brake system was unique in that the shoes were applied to the wheels by spring pressure and released by air so all the shoes on the train would automatically apply due to lack of air somewhat similarly to the NTTs. |
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