Railway Economy

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Excerpt from Railway Economy: Use of Counter-Pressure Steam in the Locomotive Engine as a Brake For some years past attempts have been made to overcome the inconveniences of reversing steam, so as to enable the driver to utilize, without difficulty or danger of any kind, the work done during the inverted action of the locomotive engine, for regulating and checking the speed of trains in descending long steep gradients. 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.