. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . SMALL GOODS WAGON, OTAVI RAILWAY. goods wagons were at first constructed aslow-sided trucks, but this constructionwas changed and the wagons suppliedlater on were fitted with high sides. Thelow-sided goods wagons have no doors atall, but are so constructed that the sidescan be swung down. The sides of allopen goods wagons rest in sockets andcan if necessary be removed open goods wagons have a carrying February, 1908. RAILWAY AND LOO »M( >l IVE ENG1N1 ERING 53 capacity of 10
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . SMALL GOODS WAGON, OTAVI RAILWAY. goods wagons were at first constructed aslow-sided trucks, but this constructionwas changed and the wagons suppliedlater on were fitted with high sides. Thelow-sided goods wagons have no doors atall, but are so constructed that the sidescan be swung down. The sides of allopen goods wagons rest in sockets andcan if necessary be removed open goods wagons have a carrying February, 1908. RAILWAY AND LOO »M( >l IVE ENG1N1 ERING 53 capacity of 10 tuns and a floor space of83 sq. ft. and a tare of tons. To re-duce the wheel loads and to go easilyround curves each wagon runs with twofour-whcolcd bogies, a self-acting brakeapplied to four wheels. Up to the pres-ent the railway owns [32 low-sided goods. LARGE FREIGHT CAR, OTAV1 RAILWAY. wagons, 52 high-sided, 20 covered goodswagons, and five cattle trucks. The State Railway running fromSwakpmund to Windhoek, which con-nects with the Otavi line at Swakpmund,has rolling stock with a different buffergauge, and to allow of the different typesbeing coupled together, special trucks havebeen designed with extra deep buffers, and10 of these trucks are now in constantuse. There are up to the present only threepassenger coaches on the line—first andsecond class. Each first class car ac-commodates 12 passengers, eight insideand four on the platform; while the sec-ond class cars have seats for 12 pas-sengers inside and four on the make the cars secure against windpressure, the space between the channelsof the underframe has been filled out withconcrete, reinforced wiui iron bars, andthe floor is about 6 ins. lower than theplatform. Each car has a carrying ca-pacity of 10 tons and weighs inclusive ofthe concrete ballast, tons. A
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