Railway and Locomotive Engineering . ng the Atlantic seaboard and in-land as far as Buffalo, Pittsburg, Chatta-nooga, .Atlanta and Mobile, because oflack of ships to take their cargoes to for-eign ports. Other little things like snowstorms in the West and floods in theSouth have meant more cars given traffic managers of automobilecompanies a serious problem to solve. Be-cause of their inability to secure enoughautomobile freight cars The Willys-Over-land Company, of Toledo, has hit uponthe expedient of shipping a part of itsoutput tarpaulined in flat cars and gon-dolas—in orde
Railway and Locomotive Engineering . ng the Atlantic seaboard and in-land as far as Buffalo, Pittsburg, Chatta-nooga, .Atlanta and Mobile, because oflack of ships to take their cargoes to for-eign ports. Other little things like snowstorms in the West and floods in theSouth have meant more cars given traffic managers of automobilecompanies a serious problem to solve. Be-cause of their inability to secure enoughautomobile freight cars The Willys-Over-land Company, of Toledo, has hit uponthe expedient of shipping a part of itsoutput tarpaulined in flat cars and gon-dolas—in order that its huge daily outputlie kept moving as fast as manufactured. 118 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. April, 1916. Safety First Railroad Rail System By \VM. H. WOOD, M. E., Media. Del. Pa. The particulars for an improved safetyrailroad rail of balanced construction de-scribed in an article in R.\ilw.\v and iirmly. The rail can be easily taken apartafter the bolts are removed and can belifted vertically out of place. P^. I>ETAII-S OF WODDS FIRST RAILROAD RAIL. Locomotive Engineering, September , 1915, page 203. The accompanyingdrawings will explain more clearly thanthe drawing of the single section that waspublished, as will be seen from the fol-lowing figures: Fig. 1 shows a side elevation of therail. Fig. 2 shows the rails as used on theties. Fig. 3 shows the center fish 4 shows the tie 5 shows the sectional view oi therail on tie. Fig. 6 shows an enlarged section of therail and center lish plate, also itIxiltcd as is usual. Fig. 7 shows a bolt where the rail couldbe attached with a split cotter instead ofbeing secured by nuts. First: There is no difficulty in makingor rolling this rail referred to, nor is thereany difficulty in rolling the center fishplates and tic plates in length, thirty feetand having them sawed off to the lengthrequired for fish plates and tie plates. Second: The rail can be used in con-nection w
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