. American engineer and railroad journal . in the lever. The support for the mo-tion rod at the steam-chest end consists of an adjustable standardwith a steel ball in a babbitted socket, the rod passing through ahole in the bT,ll. The method of attaching the cord is the same asin the other rigging. This rigging and the one previously! ilustrated are two excellentexamples of serviceable rigs, the one illustrated in June being ad-justable to a number of locomotives of different dimensions,while the one here shown is simpler and has fewer parts, but isnot adjustable to the same extent as the form
. American engineer and railroad journal . in the lever. The support for the mo-tion rod at the steam-chest end consists of an adjustable standardwith a steel ball in a babbitted socket, the rod passing through ahole in the bT,ll. The method of attaching the cord is the same asin the other rigging. This rigging and the one previously! ilustrated are two excellentexamples of serviceable rigs, the one illustrated in June being ad-justable to a number of locomotives of different dimensions,while the one here shown is simpler and has fewer parts, but isnot adjustable to the same extent as the former one. It wouldprobably require a new lever for each class of engine, all theother parts being retained. But as Mr. Gibbs has pointed out, itis a better rig than the pantograph, and while the cost of severallevers may be raised as an objection, it should be rememberedthat the cost of keeping lost motion out of the pantograph will iua measure offset this expense where much indicating is done,—Editor.] 208 AMERICAN ENGINEER, CAR BUILDER. AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 209 Forty-Six-Foot Furniture Car—Chicago, Milwaukee & Railway. __To meet the need for a furniture car of large cubical capacityon the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, Mr. J. N. Barr,Superintendent of Motive Power, designed a car, the drawings ofwhich, through his courtesy, we present to our readers. Its in-side dimensions are 46 feet in length, 8 feet 9 inches in width and9 feet 3 inches in least height, and the capacity in weight is60,000 pounds. The oar is remarkable for its size, though there have been con-structed furniture cars bO feet or more in length; but usually thecars of extreme length have a capacity of less than 60,000 most interesting part of this car, however, is the framing,which, upon inspection, will be found to differ from commonpractice. In the underf rames the arrangement of sills is novel. Or-dinarily the longitudinal members of a frame for a car of this sizewould consist o
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