Railway and Locomotive Engineering . 3 X 5/16-in. rolled angle extendingcontinuous between two points, just be-yond each body bolster. Between thesetwo rolled members and spaced aboutequally are two pressed steel stifTeners ex-tending from bolster to bolster. On theinside there are two heavy triangularshaped gusset plate braces. These extendfrom the top of sides to the cross girders the top with an angle extending betweenthe side gusset plates which are attachedto the top of these plates. To this plate,about in line witli top of center sills, arealso attached four sheets which slopedown to and
Railway and Locomotive Engineering . 3 X 5/16-in. rolled angle extendingcontinuous between two points, just be-yond each body bolster. Between thesetwo rolled members and spaced aboutequally are two pressed steel stifTeners ex-tending from bolster to bolster. On theinside there are two heavy triangularshaped gusset plate braces. These extendfrom the top of sides to the cross girders the top with an angle extending betweenthe side gusset plates which are attachedto the top of these plates. To this plate,about in line witli top of center sills, arealso attached four sheets which slopedown to and form one side of the dooropening to which the drop doors arehinged. The center sills consist of lb. rolled channels, with the flangesturned in, reinforced at the bottom on theoutside with a 3/i x 3>4 x J-g-in. angle ex-tending from draft rigging to draft rig-ging. To these sills, in front of the bodybolster, are spliced Ji-in. thick pressedsteel draft sills. The body bolsters areof the usual single web construction. The. . TKUIK Ilill IK l:iJTTOM CARS FOR THE ERIE RAILROAD. PRESSKD STEEI. ( ing are obtained. The total opening is fromJO to 50 per cent, greater than with thestandard double hopper bottom type ofcar and, therefore, the lading can be dis-charged more rapidly and with less cars have a special feature in theconstruction and bracing of sides. It isknown that where outside vertical stakesand inside tic braces tying the sides to-gether arc used these are always sooneror later damaged, the side stakes frombeing side brushed and the tie braces fromthe lading. The sides on these cars arebraced entirely different from the usualpractice, and instead of using outsidevertical side stakes spaced at regular in-tervals between the bolster, and bracingthe sides by tying them together with tiebraces, the main bracing on the outsideis longitudinal and on the inside are two pressed steel stakes on-each side, one at each bolster. Thes
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