. American engineer and railroad journal . June, 1010. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. CENER.\L VIEW OF PACIFIC STEEL FRAME BOX CAR. STEEL FRAME BOX CARS. Canadian Pacific Railway. The Canadian Pacific Railway has in service, or on order,two thousand five hundred 80,000 lb. capacity box cars, whichwere built by the Canadian Car and Foundry Company of Mon-treal. These cars are 36 ft. inside length and have a steelunderframing and steel side and roof framing, the floor, sidesheathing and roof covering being of wood. They weigh36,700 lbs. Two 15 in. channels set 12% in. ap
. American engineer and railroad journal . June, 1010. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. CENER.\L VIEW OF PACIFIC STEEL FRAME BOX CAR. STEEL FRAME BOX CARS. Canadian Pacific Railway. The Canadian Pacific Railway has in service, or on order,two thousand five hundred 80,000 lb. capacity box cars, whichwere built by the Canadian Car and Foundry Company of Mon-treal. These cars are 36 ft. inside length and have a steelunderframing and steel side and roof framing, the floor, sidesheathing and roof covering being of wood. They weigh36,700 lbs. Two 15 in. channels set 12% in. apart and continuing fromend sill to end sill form the center sills. The side sills are 8 and are set with their top face 1I/2 in. above thelevel of the top flange of the centre sills. The other longi- tudinal sills in the first order of 500 cars were 4 in. Z barslocated mid-way between the side and centre sills and restingon top of the bolsters and cross bearers. In the next 1,000cars a 3x4 in. wooden stringer was substituted and in the 1,000now being built the Z bar has again been us
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