CSX Conductor Training Part 3: Air
Brake & Train Handling Rules 2024/2025
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A valve located at each end of a locomotive or car used to open or close
the brake pipe. Handle in line means it's open. Handle crosswise means it's
closed. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Angle cock
A device on cars and locomotives, which converts the force of compressed
air into a mechanical force to move brake shoes against the wheels.
Contains a piston and piston rod. Piston out mean brakes are applied.
Piston released inside means they are released - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Brake
cylinder
The pipe extending the length of the car, locomotive or train through which
air brakes are charged, applied and released. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Brake pipe
Device used for cutting in and cutting out the control valve on a locomotive
or car. Handle crosswise with pipe, the cut out cock is open. Handle in line
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, with pipe, the cut out cock is closed. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Branch pipe cut out
cock
Valve designed to provide a means for releasing brake cylinder pressure
on a freight car by actuating a bleed rod near the control valve that is to be
identified by a small loop or handle on the bleed rod. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Brake cylinder release valve
Device on locomotives in cars that charges, applies and releases breaks in
response to changes in brake pipe pressure. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Control
valve
A storage volume for compressed air, charged from the brake pipe, which
provides air pressure for use in service and emergency brake applications.
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Auxiliary reservoir
A storage volume for compressed air, charged from the brake pipe, which
provides air pressure for use in emergency brake application and certain
recharge features. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Emergency reservoir
A device found on freight cars when the length of the brake pipe is 75 feet
or longer. Primary function of the A-1 reduction relay valve is to assist the
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Brake & Train Handling Rules 2024/2025
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A valve located at each end of a locomotive or car used to open or close
the brake pipe. Handle in line means it's open. Handle crosswise means it's
closed. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Angle cock
A device on cars and locomotives, which converts the force of compressed
air into a mechanical force to move brake shoes against the wheels.
Contains a piston and piston rod. Piston out mean brakes are applied.
Piston released inside means they are released - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Brake
cylinder
The pipe extending the length of the car, locomotive or train through which
air brakes are charged, applied and released. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Brake pipe
Device used for cutting in and cutting out the control valve on a locomotive
or car. Handle crosswise with pipe, the cut out cock is open. Handle in line
COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
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STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
, with pipe, the cut out cock is closed. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Branch pipe cut out
cock
Valve designed to provide a means for releasing brake cylinder pressure
on a freight car by actuating a bleed rod near the control valve that is to be
identified by a small loop or handle on the bleed rod. - 🧠 ANSWER
✔✔Brake cylinder release valve
Device on locomotives in cars that charges, applies and releases breaks in
response to changes in brake pipe pressure. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Control
valve
A storage volume for compressed air, charged from the brake pipe, which
provides air pressure for use in service and emergency brake applications.
- 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Auxiliary reservoir
A storage volume for compressed air, charged from the brake pipe, which
provides air pressure for use in emergency brake application and certain
recharge features. - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Emergency reservoir
A device found on freight cars when the length of the brake pipe is 75 feet
or longer. Primary function of the A-1 reduction relay valve is to assist the
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