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Originally Posted by jjshabado
Andyhop - do you have a link for that?
One thing I read (don't remember where) said that the air could bleed off pretty quickly - sometimes in as little as 10 minutes.
No link just my experience.
I drive trains we stow trains and strings of wagons all the time, and whilst you apply the mechanical handbrakes to ensure they don't move, the brakes on the wagons that don't have the handbrakes applied on them will still be on days later.
Something I didn't think of yesterday because I was thinking of the effects on the wagons is that when you apply the brakes on a train you cut off the connection between the main reservoir and the brake pipe so whether the train is running or not no air is getting into the braking system.