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Ed King's Air Brake Article, April 04 Trains
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I used to work an industrial job where I usually had an EMD SW 1 with no pressure maintaining. Every night we would shove a large cut [25/35] of cars down hill to our work. With the SW 1, I also would just lap the brake and the leakage would do the job; by the time we reached the signal, I was shoving with the brakes applied. Once in a while, we'd get a newer engine, like an SW 9, and sure enough, I'd forget to cut out the press. main. until we were well down the hill. I'd be all messed up with the "improved' gear.
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