. Railway mechanical engineer . - by 12 in. bottom cover plate passing under thecenter sills and connected to the center sills and the side trucks are of the arch bar type spaced at 15 ft. IVi, in. cen-ters and having a wheel base of 5 ft. 2 in. They are equipped withdouble full elliptic springs and not helical springs as shown in thephotograph. The cupola is placed on the center line of the car,with the cupola corner posts in one piece from side sills to cupolaside plates. In the body framing the posts and braces are ofyellow pine, the corner and the cupola posts being 4 in. by 5 in
. Railway mechanical engineer . - by 12 in. bottom cover plate passing under thecenter sills and connected to the center sills and the side trucks are of the arch bar type spaced at 15 ft. IVi, in. cen-ters and having a wheel base of 5 ft. 2 in. They are equipped withdouble full elliptic springs and not helical springs as shown in thephotograph. The cupola is placed on the center line of the car,with the cupola corner posts in one piece from side sills to cupolaside plates. In the body framing the posts and braces are ofyellow pine, the corner and the cupola posts being 4 in. by 5 in., Gould couplersrigging. .Acme uncoupling device and Farlow draft IMPROPER LOADING OF BOX CARS* BY W. H. SITTERLYGeneral Car Inspector, Pennsylvania Railroad. Buffalo. N. Y. Several branches of the railroad service are directly interestedin the matter of improperly loaded box cars; first, the agent ofthe railroad, who can assist if he will endeavor to have loadedat his warehouse and teaming tracks only such cars as are fit for. Floor Plan of Steel Underframe Caboose Used on the Pittsburg, Shawmut & Northern while the end and door posts are 2^ in. by 4 in. The belt rail is 2in. by 4 in. yellow pine and the body end plates are 2/% in. by 12}^in. oak. The body side plates are 2% in. by 4 in. yellow pine,while the carlines are of oak, 1^ in. by ly^ in., cut to a radius of16 ft. on the upper edge. The roof is 13/16 in. by 34 in. yel- loading. A strict observance of the inspectors shop marks onthe car by his subordinates will be the means of the defective *From a paper presented before the Car Foremens Association of Chi-cago and re-read before the Niagara Frontier Car Mens Association, Buf-falo, X. Y., January 20, 1915. RMLWAV A(,i: GAZI-TTE, MECHAXICAL KDITION Vol. 89, No. 5 car moving to the shop repair track instead of receiving a loadand then moving to the shop for repairs before it is placed in atrain, thereby reducing the revenue that the company should re-ceive for transport
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