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DS-03-275 C&O Freight Train Handling 1961 (Canadian Lines)

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C&O Freight Train Handling 1961 (Canadian Lines)

This booklet, pocket sized originally, was intended to assist engineers in handling freight trains and includes data on brake systems, steam generators, roller bearings, locomotive tools, speedometers, safety and fire protection, starting dead diesel units, hot journals; handling flat cars, dump cars, scale test cars, clearance car, wood rack cars, camp cars; use of hand signals, defective and damaged equipment,
and repairs on cars from other railroads.
Also covered: how to use locomotive dynamic brakes, slowdowns, slack control wheel slip, engine isolation, clearance, flat spots on wheels, stopping in tunnels and closed spaces, unattended engines, movements in engine terminals, and more.
The booklet was issued in 1961 and indictated as being for Canadian Division operation, but its provisions wuld have been nearly the same system-wide.

34 pgs.

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C&O Freight Train Handling 1961 (Canadian Lines)

This booklet, pocket sized originally, was intended to assist engineers in handling freight trains and includes data on brake systems, steam generators, roller bearings, locomotive tools, speedometers, safety and fire protection, starting dead diesel units, hot journals; handling flat cars, dump cars, scale test cars, clearance car, wood rack cars, camp cars; use of hand signals, defective and damaged equipment,
and repairs on cars from other railroads.
Also covered: how to use locomotive dynamic brakes, slowdowns, slack control wheel slip, engine isolation, clearance, flat spots on wheels, stopping in tunnels and closed spaces, unattended engines, movements in engine terminals, and more.
The booklet was issued in 1961 and indictated as being for Canadian Division operation, but its provisions wuld have been nearly the same system-wide.

34 pgs.

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