. Electric railway journal . rivers 89 per cent Normal braking power in per cent of total weight. 69 per cent The locomotives, which were built by the GeneralElectric Company, are each made up of two duplicatesections, each section having a cab mounted on twodriving trucks, of which one is unsymmetrical in thatit has an extended frame to carry the draft rigging andthe center pin for the guiding truck. The guiding truckis of the well-known equalized type common to steamlocomotives, and it carries the load on a center bearingthrough a bolster which provides 4 in. of lateral move-ment each way fr
. Electric railway journal . rivers 89 per cent Normal braking power in per cent of total weight. 69 per cent The locomotives, which were built by the GeneralElectric Company, are each made up of two duplicatesections, each section having a cab mounted on twodriving trucks, of which one is unsymmetrical in thatit has an extended frame to carry the draft rigging andthe center pin for the guiding truck. The guiding truckis of the well-known equalized type common to steamlocomotives, and it carries the load on a center bearingthrough a bolster which provides 4 in. of lateral move-ment each way from the center against a constantpressure. The riding characteristics have been mostsatisfactory, speeds of 65 being attained in pas-senger service. There is absolutely no nosing on tan-gent track. In the driving trucks the side frame, transoms and other parts taking longitudinal stresses arewithstand a 500,000-lb. static pressure withtors of safety. The side frames are of cast designed toliberal fac-steel 4^> C, M. & ST. P. LOCOMOTIVES—GUIDING TRUCK thick placed on 80-in. centers. Midway between thewheels on each of the trucks is a hollow cast-steel tran-som with supporting lugs for the nose of the tractionmotors, and ventilation from the blower in the cab is
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