. Revised and enlarged ed. of the science of railways . Austrian Car. and cars for particular purposes, much as theybreed horses. One locomotive will be built tohaul a maximum load at a minimum rate ofspeed; another to draw a similar load at thehighest rate of speed; another to draw a lightload at a high rate of speed; another to carrybundles, so to speak, that is, to do the switching(shunting) about passenger yards; another to dosimilar work about freight yards where heavyloads have to be moved quickly. There is equalor greater adaptability in the construction of 156 RAILWAY EQUIPMENT. cars.
. Revised and enlarged ed. of the science of railways . Austrian Car. and cars for particular purposes, much as theybreed horses. One locomotive will be built tohaul a maximum load at a minimum rate ofspeed; another to draw a similar load at thehighest rate of speed; another to draw a lightload at a high rate of speed; another to carrybundles, so to speak, that is, to do the switching(shunting) about passenger yards; another to dosimilar work about freight yards where heavyloads have to be moved quickly. There is equalor greater adaptability in the construction of 156 RAILWAY EQUIPMENT. cars. Every great manufacturer is prepared to answer everydemand thatmay be madeupon him. Heasks what is re-quired and inreturn makeshis suggestions. His adaptability is great in every emergency^ and his expedients as exhaustless as those of an Half Box Car with Tubular Frame, Belginm,Length. 33 ft., 5 in.; height of sides, 36in.; ;J tons; load, 291^ tons. In portraying the vehicles of railroads 1 do not,it is proper to say in passing, attempt, except ina very limited way, to portray those used forhandling freight, baggage, express, mail andother traffic about stations. These are much thesame in all countries and do not in any sensebelong exclusively to railway carriage, as similarvehicles are used wherever parcels are handled. The evolution of vehicles has for the momentreached its highest development in the cars ofrailroads, andamong these I classboth passenger andfreight. They are atonce more capa-cious, more luxuri-ous and in everyway better adapted to rapid and safe carriagethan anything before conceived by man. They
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