The Maryland Rail Heritage Library has blundered upon a HUGE supply of Westinghouse air brake manuals from the 1920s to 1950s. In short, this appears to be the AAR's former holding of one of EACH edition of rail-related manuals as they were revised, plus their supplements.
Manuals involved include (but are not limited to):
5002 CD-Type and 4-YC and Z Compressors
5026 Cross-Compound Steam Air Compressors
5027 Combined Automatic and Straight Equipment
5030 (Type K Freight Car Brake)
5032 (8-ET)
5034 (LV Passenger Car Brake)
5036 Single Stage Compressors
5038 (Quick Action)
5039 (test racks of various kinds--HUGE stack of these!)
5040 AC freight equipment
5041 slack adjusters
5045 PC Passenger Car Equipment
5046 6-DS/6-BL/14-EL for switchers
5047
5048 ET/8-ET/Inspection of loco brake equipment
5050 UC/D-22-P
5051 (various electro-pneumatic)
5056 AML for rail cars
5057 (automobile system)
5058
5061
5062
5063
5068
5071
5074
also 2931 (AB shop maintenance), 2388 (feed valve repair shop test code), 2605, 2606, and 2641, with some large-format later ones not perused yet
Now, who maintains the central library of manuals for the ATRRM, and how do we compare notes as to what they have and what they need?
To those who have availed themselves of this supposed "library" of the ATRRM: Can you give me feedback as to how "user friendly", useful, and cooperative said ATRRM library/whatever is? Is there an alternative library or archive that would make better use of them or that would share their contents more readily? Our options include keeping them here, but it seems that these would be better in a central resource available to all that need the information in them, or that would be willing and able to scan them and make them available as needed. And other Library Committee members will need to be convinced that "handing them off" is a good move.....
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