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  2. Steam locomotive components - Wikipedia

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    [5] [7]: 18 Early American locomotives had bar frames, made from steel bar; in the 20th century they usually had cast steel frames or, in the final decades of steam locomotive design, a cast steel locomotive bed – a one-piece steel casting for the entire locomotive frame, cylinders, valve chests, steam pipes, and smokebox saddle, all as a ...

  3. Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    Hopewell Furnace stove, 10-plate cooking model, with a lower firebox and upper oven for baking. Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in southeastern Berks County, near Elverson, Pennsylvania, is an example of an American 19th century rural iron plantation, whose operations were based around a charcoal-fired cold-blast iron blast furnace.

  4. Railway brake - Wikipedia

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    The chain brake remained in use until the 1870s in America [9] and 1890s in the UK. [10] The Heberlein brake is a notable variation on the chain brake popular in Germany, using an overhead cable instead of an underlinked chain. Hydraulic brakes. Actuating pressure to apply brakes was transmitted hydraulically (as with automobile brakes).

  5. Emergency brake (train) - Wikipedia

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    Driver's brake handle in a class 317 electric multiple unit. On trains, the expression emergency brake has several meanings: . The maximum brake force available to the engine driver from the conventional braking system, usually operated by taking the brake handle to its furthest position, through a gate mechanism, or by pushing a separate plunger in the cab.

  6. British railway brake van - Wikipedia

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    Interior of a typical goods brake van. Immediately to the left of the doorway is the stove and stove pipe; to the left of this are a firebucket, ducket (blanked off) and sandbox; in front of the stove is the sanding lever; to the right are the handbrake, vacuum brake handle, vacuum gauge and seat

  7. Malleable Iron Range Company - Wikipedia

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    The Malleable Iron Range Company was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1896 by Silas McClure and A. C. Terrell. [1] The company was incorporated in 1899 with Monarch as a trademark. In 1900 the Dauntless Stove Manufacturing Company of Omaha, Nebraska , became indebted to the Beaver Dam Malleable Iron Works for $5000 for castings ordered by ...

  8. Brake van - Wikipedia

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    The brake van also contains a stretcher, an emergency train lighting box, and a stand to hold the lamp signal during the night. The vacuum or air pressure gauge is hosted in front of the guard's seat with a lever to operate it in case of emergency. The hand brake can be used in case of high emergency. The remaining part of the coach consists of ...

  9. Parking brake - Wikipedia

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    In manual transmission vehicles, the parking brake is engaged to help keep the vehicle stationary while parked, especially if parked on an incline. [2] [3]While automatic transmission vehicles have a "Park" gear that immobilizes the transmission, it is still recommended to use the parking brake, as the parking pawl in the gearbox could fail due to stress or another vehicle striking the car ...

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