enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Kamensk-Shakhtinsky rail disaster - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamensk-Shakhtinsky_rail...

   The train crew closed the brake line after the 6th wagon, thereby isolating the brakes of the rearmost 49 wagons, meaning that they were not being replenished with air from the locomotives. The locomotive crews were then changed without the new crew being informed of the leak and brake isolation.

3. Banjo fitting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo_fitting

   It is typically used to connect a fluid line to a rigid, internally threaded hydraulic component. The bolt is assembled through the center of the union, usually with face seals on either side of the union, to create a fluid path between the external ports on the union and bolt. A flexible hose or a rigid pipe may be connected to the union port. [1]

4. Railway air brake - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_air_brake

   A comparatively simple brake linkage. In the air brake's simplest form, called the straight air system, compressed air pushes on a piston in a cylinder. The piston is connected through mechanical linkage to brake shoes that can rub on the train wheels, using the resulting friction to slow the train.

5. 1979 Mississauga train derailment - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Mississauga_train...

   As the flames were erupting, the train's brakeman, Larry Krupa, 27, at the suggestion of the engineer (also his father-in-law), [2] managed to close an air brake angle spigot at the west end of the undamaged 32nd car, allowing the engineer to release the air brakes between the locomotives and the derailed cars and move the front part of the ...

6. News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com

   homepage.aol.com

   Discover the latest breaking news in the U.S. and around the world — politics, weather, entertainment, lifestyle, finance, sports and much more.

7. Railway brake - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_brake

   The earliest type of continuous brake was the chain brake [19] which used a chain, running the length of the train, to operate brakes on all vehicles simultaneously. The chain brake was soon superseded by air-operated or vacuum operated brakes. These brakes used hoses connecting all the wagons of a train, so the operator could apply or release ...