Excerpt from Air Brake Text for Engineers and Firemen: A Complete Treatise on the Westing-House and New York Air Brake and Signal Systems Air Brake Practice and Train Handling The instructions contained in the Air Brake Text for Engineers and Firemen was prepared by Locomotive Engineers who have had years of experience in practical air brake practice. The subject matter being thoroughly and briefly treated in plain, comprehensive language, and can be easily understood by all who give the text careful study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.