. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . er pushes his head outof the side window, it is certainly arather deceptive way of judging speed,especially on a dark night, or when thethermometer has lost its way down inthe bulb. An engineer who had towatch the motion of the crosshead onsuch a night in order to tell how closehe could come to his meeting points,would be apt to come in without part ofhis right ear. Nearly every engineerCan tell pretty accurately how fast hisengine is running, under circumstancesthat would be terribly confusi
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . er pushes his head outof the side window, it is certainly arather deceptive way of judging speed,especially on a dark night, or when thethermometer has lost its way down inthe bulb. An engineer who had towatch the motion of the crosshead onsuch a night in order to tell how closehe could come to his meeting points,would be apt to come in without part ofhis right ear. Nearly every engineerCan tell pretty accurately how fast hisengine is running, under circumstancesthat would be terribly confusing to a while a rough piece of track wouldmake a raw runner think he was gettingover the road at terrific speed, when hewas losing time. The instinctive powerof training raises the experienced engin-eer above the influence of deceptive sur-roundings, and in the worst night thatblows, the click of the wheels on thejoints, the rumble of the wheels on therails, or the flasji of light on a passingobject, enables him to tell how he isgetting along, but the crosshead isvery seldom seen between SPECI.\I, STEEL FLAT C.\R, 120,l«J0 LBS. CAPACITY. lerial. in the usual manner. Althoughthe draw gear is at the standard heightfrom the rail, the deck of the car hasbeen made as low as possible and thecoupler rigging is covered by a flatsteel plate. There are no throughcenter sills, those which are used aremade of I-beams and extend from thebody bolsters to the end sills, and tothese the draw gear is attached. The principle of bridge constructionis embodied in the side sills and in thisregard it is an example of a heavycar adapted to a special purpose. Else-where in this issue we present an ex-ample of a car in which the use of sidesills has been practically dispensed special reasons. Both these types ofcars afTord profitable studies to thosewho are interested in the steel car build-ers art. Both have special functions andboth are good examples of the adapta-tion of means t
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