. American engineer and railroad journal . STEEL UNDERFKAME FOR PASSENGER COACHES, C. R. ft. OF N. J. draft gear is used in connection with a three-stem coupler. Fol-lowing are the general dimensions of the car: Length over end sills 60 ft. Length inside 59 ft. 3J4 in. Width over side sills 9 ft. 8 in. Width inside 8 ft. 10A in. Height from rail to top of car IS ft. 10^i in. Distance between truck centers 45 ft. 8 in. The car weighs 90,000 lhs. and has a capacity for 74 pas-sengers. The four wheel trucks have 36-in. forged steel wheels;the axles have 5 x g-in. journals. The truck frame, bolste
. American engineer and railroad journal . STEEL UNDERFKAME FOR PASSENGER COACHES, C. R. ft. OF N. J. draft gear is used in connection with a three-stem coupler. Fol-lowing are the general dimensions of the car: Length over end sills 60 ft. Length inside 59 ft. 3J4 in. Width over side sills 9 ft. 8 in. Width inside 8 ft. 10A in. Height from rail to top of car IS ft. 10^i in. Distance between truck centers 45 ft. 8 in. The car weighs 90,000 lhs. and has a capacity for 74 pas-sengers. The four wheel trucks have 36-in. forged steel wheels;the axles have 5 x g-in. journals. The truck frame, bolster andspring plank are of cast steel, furnished by the Commonwealth. ^f5TL*l -i-^:J CENTRAL RAILROAD OF NEW JERSEY COACHES WITH STEEL UNDERFKAMES. 490 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. Steel Company. Waycott high speed brake beams are car is lighted by Pintsch gas one-flame mantle lamps, fur-nished by the Safety Car Heating & Lighting Co., of New York. PENNSYLVANIA ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES. The first of the initial order for twenty-tour electric loco-motives, which are to be used for handling the PennsylvaniaRailroad trains into the New York Station, has been de-livered and is in operation on the electrified tracks of the LongIsland Railroad. It is the result of several years co-operativedevelopment between the Pennsylvania Railroad Company andthe Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company and isdistinctively a high powered machine, built for high speed opera-tion. In wheel arrangement, weight distribution, trucks* and gen-eral character of the running gear it is the practical equivalentof two American type locomotives coupled perma
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