. Railway age gazette . o ?;^^^ Section Showing Pawl Plate Used on Wooden Brake Steps of the law in this particular, and they find less difficulty in com-plying with it than do roads not so fortunately manufacture of solid forged brake shafts for thousands ofcars, together with the demand for handholds, ladder rounds,etc., is a severe tax on the capacity of railroad blacksmith the safety appliance standards of the Interstate CommerceCommission went into effect, the Buffalo. Rochester & Pitts-burgh was one of the many roads which found that a large num-ber of its cars ha
. Railway age gazette . o ?;^^^ Section Showing Pawl Plate Used on Wooden Brake Steps of the law in this particular, and they find less difficulty in com-plying with it than do roads not so fortunately manufacture of solid forged brake shafts for thousands ofcars, together with the demand for handholds, ladder rounds,etc., is a severe tax on the capacity of railroad blacksmith the safety appliance standards of the Interstate CommerceCommission went into effect, the Buffalo. Rochester & Pitts-burgh was one of the many roads which found that a large num-ber of its cars had welded brake shafts. The complement of. i^^f^^ Square Brake Shaft Applied to Gondola Car forging machines which had been sufficient for ordinary condi-tions was found insufficient to turn out the requisite number ofhandholds and brake shafts, and it became necessary either toinvest in expensive forging machines and furnaces or to designa brake shaft which dispensed with the upsetting process. Thedesign illustrated was finally developed, by which the upsettingprocess, the forging down of the ends of the shaft, and thread- 648 RAILWAY AGE GAZETTE, MECHANICAL EDITION Vol. No. 12 ing the end for the brake wheel nut, are dispensed with, whilethe ratchet wheel is secured to the shaft without the use of thetroublesome key-way and taper key. One of the engravingsshows the brake shaft applied to a steel hopper car with a castnietal brake step. A similar arrangement is used on box cars, thistype of brake step making the use of an independent pawl plateunnecessary. For gondola cars wooden steps are used and aspecial metal pawl plate i
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