. Railway mechanical engineer . y the Burr Company, Cham-paign, 111. CONSTRUCTION OF CAR The cars are 50 ft. long by 8 ft. 10 in. wide inside, the dynamo-meter room at one end of the car being 15 ft. 2 in. long. Therest of the car is divided into compartments for housing thetesting crew, there being three lower and one upper berth, anoffice with a sofa berth, a room for the porter and a kitchenequipped with a range, refrigerator, etc. The car is heated withhot water from a Baker heater. Rolling side doors are pro-vided at both sides of the car in the dynamometer room, a smalldoor, 4 ft. high i
. Railway mechanical engineer . y the Burr Company, Cham-paign, 111. CONSTRUCTION OF CAR The cars are 50 ft. long by 8 ft. 10 in. wide inside, the dynamo-meter room at one end of the car being 15 ft. 2 in. long. Therest of the car is divided into compartments for housing thetesting crew, there being three lower and one upper berth, anoffice with a sofa berth, a room for the porter and a kitchenequipped with a range, refrigerator, etc. The car is heated withhot water from a Baker heater. Rolling side doors are pro-vided at both sides of the car in the dynamometer room, a smalldoor, 4 ft. high is provided in the kitchen end, and a high dooris provided on the dynamometer end. A special observation win-dow, as shown in the illustrations, is placed in each side of thecar. This window projects 7 in. beyond the side of the car so bolsters. The distance between the webs is 13 in. and the depthis 2 ft. 3¥s in. at the center and 125/£ in. at the ends. It extendsfrom the end sill at the kitchen end to the body bolster at the. Horizontal Section Through the Observation Window dynamometer end of the car, the dynamometer rigging beinginstalled between the bolster and the end sill. It is made witha 3^2-in. by 3y2-in. by H-in. angle at the outside top of a plate and an angle of the same size at each side of the
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