. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ed by angles, so thatit may be said that the side bearer, withtwo stakes, one at each end, make prac-tically one cross member. From this description it is tolerablyclear that the Ralston car has a strong-ly made steel skeleton, and one mightliken it in a way to the form of construc-tion adopted by builders of modern steelships. The center sills form the keel of The stakes of the car having their flatflanges outward, making the sides of thecar flush, and offer a convenient methodof applying th
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ed by angles, so thatit may be said that the side bearer, withtwo stakes, one at each end, make prac-tically one cross member. From this description it is tolerablyclear that the Ralston car has a strong-ly made steel skeleton, and one mightliken it in a way to the form of construc-tion adopted by builders of modern steelships. The center sills form the keel of The stakes of the car having their flatflanges outward, making the sides of thecar flush, and offer a convenient methodof applying the jjlanks along the floor practically consists of thesi)aces between the cross members of thecar, and as there are eight of these; thereare sixteen doors in all, and they open their ends, and one long ratchet lever has a pawl for giving motionto the shaft, and the second ratchetwheel and pawl is for the purjjose of pre-venting the shaft from rotating backwardwhile a new grip is being taken, and italso acts as a lock when the doors areclosed, and prevents any chance of a pre-. KALSTON DL:MP C.\R AS A CieXEKAI, SKKVICK through a distance of 2 ft. 3 ins. Thedoors over the trucks open as wide asthe others, and the whole lot come downto the level of the top of the axle order to get as great anangleof slopeas possible, and to do away with anydead area down the center of the floor,there is a S-in. I-beam placed on top ofthe horizontal plate of the center serves the double purpose of sup-sporting the hinges of the doors and rais-ing them up so that when the doors areopen they clear the center sills. The door operating mechanism is avery ingenious arrangement. The doors
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