. American engineer and railroad journal . in the case of the lightwooden box car of the Chesapeake & Ohio is This is prob-ably as high as wooden construction will permit for boxcars, but a slightly higher ratio () is found in the 80,000pound wooden gondola cars of the Illinois Central, which is nodoubt the limiting figure for wood. These cars weigh 31,500pounds empty. Steel, however, presents means of raising theratio of load capacity to dead weight, and we find such propor-tion on some 100,000 pound steel cars to be These cars arefor ore service, and are only 26 feet long, they
. American engineer and railroad journal . in the case of the lightwooden box car of the Chesapeake & Ohio is This is prob-ably as high as wooden construction will permit for boxcars, but a slightly higher ratio () is found in the 80,000pound wooden gondola cars of the Illinois Central, which is nodoubt the limiting figure for wood. These cars weigh 31,500pounds empty. Steel, however, presents means of raising theratio of load capacity to dead weight, and we find such propor-tion on some 100,000 pound steel cars to be These cars arefor ore service, and are only 26 feet long, they therefore vague-ly indicate what may be done in the design of the all steel boxcar which is yet to come. There are, however, sufficient datato be gathered from the steel cars already built to show theadvantages of that construction, in reducing the number ofcars to the train, and therefore the resistance on curves, aswell as increasing the tonnage per car, all of which results April. 1809. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 113. Fig. 1.—Light Stock Car-Chesapeai<e & Ohio Ry.
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