. American engineer and railroad journal . 1^—sli--—---^ II Sim J ssSviiUh Inside 27 7 Length luside Class 3 5>^ Width Inside 396Lengtli Inside Class Gm. centrated load of 120,000 lbs. and were built for special ser-vice in transporting heavy wire rope cables for cable railroads. The class designations of the freight equipment of this roadare as follows: Box cars, X; refrigerators, R; charcoal cars,L; stock, K; gondolas, G; flats, F; cabin, N; dump, U;wrecking or derrick, W. Sufiix letters indicate succession indesign, and second suffix letters indicate minor modificationsof design, wi
. American engineer and railroad journal . 1^—sli--—---^ II Sim J ssSviiUh Inside 27 7 Length luside Class 3 5>^ Width Inside 396Lengtli Inside Class Gm. centrated load of 120,000 lbs. and were built for special ser-vice in transporting heavy wire rope cables for cable railroads. The class designations of the freight equipment of this roadare as follows: Box cars, X; refrigerators, R; charcoal cars,L; stock, K; gondolas, G; flats, F; cabin, N; dump, U;wrecking or derrick, W. Sufiix letters indicate succession indesign, and second suffix letters indicate minor modificationsof design, with reference to such details as height of sidesand character of end doors, as in the case of gondola cars. Inall cases the first letter designates the class. In March, 1895, the Gg car was built from drawings pre-pared at Fort Wayne after a study of all existing types ofheavy coal cars. It was a wooden hopper car and is believedto be the first large self-clearing hopper car ever built. Thisdesign has exerted a controlling infiuence over subsequentpractice in steel cars. The first car weighed 35,200 lbs. an
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