. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . -inch steelI-beams, filled with oak between webs andflanges and securely bolted. A simple LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 251 calculation will show this bolster to beone of the strongest in service to-day—as it shows itself the simplest. The tie strap is offset upward J4 inch,and the arch bars are spread i8 inchesat tlie center, making an arch of excep-tional rigidity; and with the steel chan-nel spring seat, and inside-hung metallic 3*S the designer had the courage of his con-victions and refused to perpetuate
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . -inch steelI-beams, filled with oak between webs andflanges and securely bolted. A simple LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 251 calculation will show this bolster to beone of the strongest in service to-day—as it shows itself the simplest. The tie strap is offset upward J4 inch,and the arch bars are spread i8 inchesat tlie center, making an arch of excep-tional rigidity; and with the steel chan-nel spring seat, and inside-hung metallic 3*S the designer had the courage of his con-victions and refused to perpetuate all theglaring defects of the past. We are indebted to Mr. R. H. Soule,superintendent of motive power of theNorfolk & Western Railway, for his draw-ings, from which our illustrations weremade. sylvania lines, a large number of railsand old car axles are so carefully dis-tributed that the irregularities of the road-bed and the effect of the sharp curves areobviated. This is a detail of dead-weight practicenot generally understood by car men;but it would doubtless be in evidence in. HALF ILAN brake beams, the whole thing has a busi-ness-like appearance. Taken in the concrete, there are manypoints about this car that entitle it to aposition in the front rank with the best;and in some particulars cited it standsalone, in our estimation, as an exampleof advanced car practice, simply because How to Make an Easy=Riding Car. A contemporary informs the worldthat most of the private cars in whichthe prominent railway officials of theUnited States travel are weighted downto make them ride easy. It goes on tosay: In the compartment between thefloors of all the private cars of the Penn- the event of a collision, when those rails(presumably T-rails) and axles shot fromtheir moorings and mowed a death-deal-ing swath—not in the car, but outside ofit. It seems to us that this catapult prin-ciple would not be a good thing to emu-late by builders of private supposition has gotten abr
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