Functional Purpose of a Diesel Locomotive Brake Wheel?

[zugmann]

It indeed should be. Dave

Well, yeah, you need to set handbrakes to hold the train. Not many will argue about that. Still not clear on your point, though.

[jeffhergert]

cv_acr

davidmurray

The rules may say set hand brake(s), but I direct everyone’s attention to Lac Magellanic. Enough said.

Dave

“Enough said”? I’m not sure what you think you’re saying.

The issue at Lac-Megantic was not enough handbrakes were applied.

cv_acr
“Enough said”? I’m not sure what you think you’re saying. The issue at Lac-Megantic was not enough handbrakes were applied.

My point was that no matter what several people say about engine hand brakes, and hand brakes in general, no one has reported any hand brakes on engines or cars being set, it therefore seems this is not a universally followed rule, or practice, or whatever term you wish to call it.

It indeed should be.

Dave

The train that ran away at Lac Magentic had hand brakes applied on all engines and one or two cars. When the push/pull securement test was done, it was with the independent applied. It shoud’ve been done with the independent released. The independent applied gave more braking power than the hand brakes alone, so it seemed secured. Once the fire dept shut down the only engine running, shutting down the air compressor,