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Re: Pressure maintaining must work, if equipped, gooes way back.....
Author: BOB2
Date: 04-30-2016 - 09:36
If I recall correctly (it's been a while...), any engine equipped with pressure maintaining was required to have it working.
If you didn't have properly operating pressure maintaining operative on a 26L, you couldn't legitimately pass an initial terminal air test, cause when you made a set, and allowed it to equalize, before cutting out the valve to test train leakage, it would just continue to leak (bleed) down (bad gasket/baffle, if I recall correctly?). I know, because it happened to me. And, when Henry Chigi threatened me and told me to go with it anyhow, I told him he could go FHS and call someone who would be okay with violating Federal Air Brake rules, resulting in my only 60 dummies, for "bad attitude".
And yeah, SP hogheads were a pretty crusty bunch, when they needed to be.
If you didn't have properly operating pressure maintaining operative on a 26L, you couldn't legitimately pass an initial terminal air test, cause when you made a set, and allowed it to equalize, before cutting out the valve to test train leakage, it would just continue to leak (bleed) down (bad gasket/baffle, if I recall correctly?). I know, because it happened to me. And, when Henry Chigi threatened me and told me to go with it anyhow, I told him he could go FHS and call someone who would be okay with violating Federal Air Brake rules, resulting in my only 60 dummies, for "bad attitude".
And yeah, SP hogheads were a pretty crusty bunch, when they needed to be.
