. American engineer and railroad journal . en in this important detail of car con-struction. of salt water every 24 hours, which on an average will contain8% per cent, of salt. The committee started out with the Ideaof having refrigerator cars fitted with one or more reservoirs,to be attached underneath the car body, into which the saltwater drippings could be conveyed, the reservoirs to be largeenough so that they would not have to be emptied more thanonce every twelve hours, at division terminals, where the properprovision could be made for taking care of the salt idea, however, m
. American engineer and railroad journal . en in this important detail of car con-struction. of salt water every 24 hours, which on an average will contain8% per cent, of salt. The committee started out with the Ideaof having refrigerator cars fitted with one or more reservoirs,to be attached underneath the car body, into which the saltwater drippings could be conveyed, the reservoirs to be largeenough so that they would not have to be emptied more thanonce every twelve hours, at division terminals, where the properprovision could be made for taking care of the salt idea, however, met with so much opposition on the part ofthe refrigerator car owners that the committee abandoned it,not caring to recommend an arrangement that the refrigeratorcar owners would be unwilling to adopt. The committee presents two methods that can be followedwithout much expense, either one of which will improve thepresent condition of affairs; and, although a patent has been ap-plied for In the case of Design No. 2, it is the opinion of the. RUST FROM SALT-WATER Higgins, A. M. Waitt^Committee. The origin of the inquiry as to the damage resulting from salt-water drippings is clearly set forth in some remarks that weremade by the chairman of the present committee during themaster car builders convention of 1897. The fact that the Master Car Builders Association hasthought it necessary to appoint a committee to prepare a re-port on this subject is sufficient answer to the claims that thesalt-water drippings are not harmful. The Information receivedby the committee indicates that more interest is being taken inthe subject by the ofHcials in charge of the track and bridgesthan by those in charge of the rolling stock, which is accountedfor by the fact that the track and the bridges are being moredamaged by salt-water drippings than the car trucks. It should be understood that the salt-water drippings comefrom refrigerator cars loaded with dressed beef. In such carsthe mixt
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