. American engineer and railroad journal . he telescoping of cars, andwhich has been in use for many years on the Chicago &Alton Railroad, is tile Blackstonc platform, a diagrammaticside view and plan of whicli is shown in figs. 1 and i, andwhich has heretofore been illustrated and commended inthese pages. The principle of this, it would seem, could bereadily applied to the connection of engines and peculiar feature of the platform is shown in the twoviews. At each end of the cars two safety-beams, a a, Vol. LXVII, No. 2.] AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 55 a a and J J, 5 J, which project be
. American engineer and railroad journal . he telescoping of cars, andwhich has been in use for many years on the Chicago &Alton Railroad, is tile Blackstonc platform, a diagrammaticside view and plan of whicli is shown in figs. 1 and i, andwhich has heretofore been illustrated and commended inthese pages. The principle of this, it would seem, could bereadily applied to the connection of engines and peculiar feature of the platform is shown in the twoviews. At each end of the cars two safety-beams, a a, Vol. LXVII, No. 2.] AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 55 a a and J J, 5 J, which project beyond the buffer-beams,are fastened below the floor sills. The safety-beams are notplaced at equal distances from the center of the car, but oneis further from it than the other, so that when one car ad-joins the other, as shown in the plan, fig. 2, the safety-beamsinterlock with each other as shown. It will also be seen that Fig. I. o^ mun ^^ I—-:— r>^>>K)^>^^^^^^j^^i^^i^j^j^^Jj^^.i yjx^ffj!>^jVM>JAf^j^. .-jj^.rm. Fig. 2. those on the one car project under the buffer-beam of theother, so that the one car cannot raise up or be depressedwithout taking the other with it. In this way the floors arekept in line, and the longitudinal beams which form the carframes must resist the shock of collision. If applied to locoraotiyes and tenders, the beams, insteadof being made of wood, might be of iron, and might bemade in the form of hooks similar to a letter Li the verticalpart being fastened to the end of the engine or tenderframe, and the horizontal portion would then project underthe adjoining frame to the one to which the beam is at-tached. In fact, projections might be forged on or boltedto the back ends of the engine frame which would projectbelow the tender frame. The expense of such an arrange-ment would be very slight, and would save many a poor fel-low from death or injury and unspeakable suffering. Whowill be the first to give it a trial ? Before this is d
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