Andre: Judicious use of the regulating valve will prevent that from happening. I remember a story about a railroad that wanted to fire an engineer for descending maountain grades by using the regulating valve to maintain brake pipe pressure with K-type brakes.
They got all set up for a ring-a-ding-ding kangaroo court, and even had a representative from the air brake manufacturer to drive the final nail in their case against the engineer. His testimony wasn't exactly what they wanted to hear. He testified that the engineer had better use the regulating valve, unless the railroad wanted a pile of scrap at the bottom of the mountain. Case closed! Bob Nicholson _________________________________________ PS - the "passenger" setting on #26 brake valves serves the same purpose. That's how we got down the hills with no dynamic brakes ________________________________________________________________ --- In [email protected], "Andre Ming" <laming@...> wrote: > > Gotta' be careful though when decending heavy grades (as on my V scale > Colorado Midland route)... or you can... umm... uhh... "potty" away your air > and away you go! (Ahhhgggghh!!!! LOOK OUT BELOW!!!) > > Fun is where you find it! > > Andre Ming > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
