. American engineer and railroad journal . some special service in whichthey will not be put into the same trains with heavier cars of over 60,000 pounds capacity are at present inuse; ore cars of 60,000 pounds capacity have been in use forseveral years on a number of roads: coal cars of a capacityof 70,000 pounds have recently been built in considerablenumbei^ hy another road, and the building of cars pounds capacity for regular service is receiving seri-ous consideration throughout the country. These large cars may, however, be considered as yet inthe experimental stage,
. American engineer and railroad journal . some special service in whichthey will not be put into the same trains with heavier cars of over 60,000 pounds capacity are at present inuse; ore cars of 60,000 pounds capacity have been in use forseveral years on a number of roads: coal cars of a capacityof 70,000 pounds have recently been built in considerablenumbei^ hy another road, and the building of cars pounds capacity for regular service is receiving seri-ous consideration throughout the country. These large cars may, however, be considered as yet inthe experimental stage, and they will be treated by them-selves later on; in the description immediately followingonly cars of pounds capacity will be considered. DIMENSIONS. The length of a 60,000-pound freight car is generallyfrom about 34 to 36 feet long over its end sills; the formerlength is largely adopted by roads which do not uae anend platform; the latter length is necessary with end plat-forms to get an effective inside length of about 34 FIQS. I AND 2. SHOfflNG COMMON ARRANGEMENT. OFl FLOOR FRAMINC AND TlIt is. furthermore, not pretended that very much, if any. until some robda bad adopt«d different standarda of theirnew matter will be presout<Hl, as nearly every new cjr own, and had built cars according to them. These roadswliich has been put into use in the last few yeara has been were naturally not very desirous of changing to somemote or less described and illustrated in the railroad and other plan perhaps not better than their own, and weenglne«rmg journals, and a series of articles like these can therefore find even in modern care many variations fromonly give m a geceral way the improvemeuta made over the M C. B. standards, which make more or less troubleth« old practice, and the latter must be referred to at times on roads which adhere strictly to these standards. In order to avoid, if possible, this state of affairs in future,standards should be established in a
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