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Tom Shreve

February 24, 2009 12:37PM

Registered: 16 years ago
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If the engine had a pump at all would depend on the kind of service it was being used for. Forneys that were used on sugar plantation railroads, small mining operations and logging roads may not have air brakes at all. Instead they would probably have steam brakes on the engine and hand brakes (or even no brakes) on the cars. Another possibility was the Eames vacuum brake system that was used on a number of small insular narrow gauge roads,

Tom

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Small Locomotives, and airpumps	S.B.A.	February 23, 2009 04:50PM
Re: Small Locomotives, and airpumps	Curtis_F	February 23, 2009 05:54PM
Re: Small Locomotives, and airpumps	S.B.A.	February 23, 2009 05:58PM
Re: Small Locomotives, and airpumps	Dave Johnson	February 25, 2009 10:26PM
Re: Small Locomotives, and airpumps	Bruce R. Pier	February 23, 2009 06:14PM
Re: Small Locomotives, and airpumps	S.B.A.	February 23, 2009 06:34PM
Re: Small Locomotives, and airpumps	Tom Shreve	February 24, 2009 12:37PM

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