Railway and Locomotive Engineering . deview. The line engraving illustrates of the body in detail. Thecenter sills are formed of 12-in. channelswhich extend to points just outside thebolsters as will be discussed later. Thebolsters are built into and form an essen-tial portion of the body of the car, and bolsters there are four minor cross-tiesreaching from the center sills to the sidesof the car. The top of the car is stiffened by a spe-cial angle to take the loaded car in thedumping machine at Lamberts Point, forthese cars are lifted, turned over anddumoed. in the manner tha
Railway and Locomotive Engineering . deview. The line engraving illustrates of the body in detail. Thecenter sills are formed of 12-in. channelswhich extend to points just outside thebolsters as will be discussed later. Thebolsters are built into and form an essen-tial portion of the body of the car, and bolsters there are four minor cross-tiesreaching from the center sills to the sidesof the car. The top of the car is stiffened by a spe-cial angle to take the loaded car in thedumping machine at Lamberts Point, forthese cars are lifted, turned over anddumoed. in the manner that has been inuse for a number of years with the carsof lighter capacity. The gusset plate, furthermore, not onlyserves to stiffen the side of the car but totransfer the load to the center sills. One of the novel features of the car isthe method of supporting the body on thetrucks. The usual method of carryingthe whole load on the center plates and de-pending upon the side bearings to balancethe body, with the usual tendency to 100-TON COAT. CAR ON THE NORFOLK & WESTERN weight of the car when loaded to its sten-ciled capacity; while, if loaded with thepermissible 10 per cent overload, thispercentage drops to about per is, we believe, the lowest percentageof empty to loaded car weight that hasthus far been obtained. The general dimensions of tlic car areas follows: Length over striking plates,43 ft. 9 in.; coupled length, 46 ft. 2 in.;center to center of trucks, 31 ft. 8 in.;truck wheel base, 8 ft. 6 in.; height of topof car side from rail, 11 ft.; height ofcenter of gravity, loaded with 200,000 coal, 6 ft. 9 in.; inside length, 42 ft, 7in.; inside width, 9 ft. 6 in.; cubical ca-pacity level full, 3, cu. ft.; cubical ca-pacity with 30° heap, 3,636 cu. ft.; nom-inal capacity, 200,000 lbs.; weight of arc formed of a pressed steel arch extend-ing across the car and riveted to the side-sheets at each end and stiffened at the topby two 2y2 in. by 2;/
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