Excerpt from Up-to-Date New York Air Brake Catechism: The Only Complete Treatise on the New York Air Brake and Air Signaling Apparatus, Giving a Detailed Description of All the Parts, Their Operation, Troubles, and the Methods of Locating and Remedying the SameThe book has been written with the idea of furnish ing information, not only for those who are interested in handling the brake, but for those as well who have to do with the installation and maintenance of it.Detailed information is contained bearing on the peculiarities, troubles, care and remedies, and a spe cial effort has been made to have the index so ar ranged that any point may be not only located in a particular chapter, but on a special page, thus mak ing it a book Of ready reference in which the informa tion desired may be quickly found. In using the index, points in question may best be found by first locating the piece of apparatus concerning which information is desired; the point at issue may then be readily located under the main heading.Chapters which contain a large amount of general information on the general subject of brakes, train handling, train inspection, leverage, formulae, rules, etc., will be found, the object sought being to make the book as complete and interesting as possible to those interested in all branches of railroad service.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.