. Railway mechanical engineer . roops in France, andpresented by the United Kingdom Flour Millers train is 428 ft. long. Each coach for the wounded will ac-commodate thirty men, thus giving room for 150 in all. Thetrain is lighted by electricity, and the cookers in the two kitchencoaches are heated by anthracite fuel. At the top of the coachesare tanks of 300 gallons capacity for the water supply; the heat-ing is by steam pipes, and each coach weighs between 27 and 28tons. Mav, 1915 RAILWAY AdK (;AZi-:rTl:, MHtllAXICAI, KIMTIOX 257 UNDERFRAME SUSPENSION OFLIGHTING GENERATORS GA
. Railway mechanical engineer . roops in France, andpresented by the United Kingdom Flour Millers train is 428 ft. long. Each coach for the wounded will ac-commodate thirty men, thus giving room for 150 in all. Thetrain is lighted by electricity, and the cookers in the two kitchencoaches are heated by anthracite fuel. At the top of the coachesare tanks of 300 gallons capacity for the water supply; the heat-ing is by steam pipes, and each coach weighs between 27 and 28tons. Mav, 1915 RAILWAY AdK (;AZi-:rTl:, MHtllAXICAI, KIMTIOX 257 UNDERFRAME SUSPENSION OFLIGHTING GENERATORS GAR An electric car lighting c(|ni|)uient has recently heen hrnnght(■ni in which the generator is suspended from the underfranie oftill car instead of from the truck. Che etjuipnient is manufac-tured h\- the Safety Car I I eating & Lighting Co., 2 Rector street,New and .a innnher of sets now in service are claimed tolie giving iiilire salislaclion Several rnMiiiliniis Iki\c arisen in uilh llie su>;pen-. Fig. 1—Car Lighting Generator Suspended from the Underframe sion of ear lighting generators from truck frames which are in-creasing the difhculty of properly designing this type of equip-ment for application to steel trucks and steel car liodies of thetype of construction now commonly employed. The deep centersill generally used en all-steel and steel underframe ecpiipment 7 so low that snow and ice cause trouble (luring the winter months. Ihe underframe suspension was developed to overcome theseand oilier difficulties arising from the older method of suspen-sion, I he general appearance of the generator and its suspensionand the method of attaching it to the underframe arc shown inhig, 1. The successful operation of this type of suspension de-IJciids upon the ahilitv to maintain a uniform helt tension throughIhe comparatively wide range of adjustment necessary to takecare of the curving of the truck. The method of securing uni-form helt tension wil
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