. Electric railway journal . ntly completed a locomotive for use exclusively inhandling coal at the power house. The over-all di-mensions are: length 30 ft., width 8 ft., height fromtop of rail to clearance line 12 ft. 6 in. A great deal ofthe material used in the construction of the body wassalvaged. The end sills, side sills and cross sills consist of one15 in., 40-lb. channel each, the end sills and side sillshaving flanges set in. There are four longitudinal sillseach being a 4-in. x 10-in. stringer, and the draft beamsare 10-in. I-beams. The cross sills are spaced 6 and the wheel
. Electric railway journal . ntly completed a locomotive for use exclusively inhandling coal at the power house. The over-all di-mensions are: length 30 ft., width 8 ft., height fromtop of rail to clearance line 12 ft. 6 in. A great deal ofthe material used in the construction of the body wassalvaged. The end sills, side sills and cross sills consist of one15 in., 40-lb. channel each, the end sills and side sillshaving flanges set in. There are four longitudinal sillseach being a 4-in. x 10-in. stringer, and the draft beamsare 10-in. I-beams. The cross sills are spaced 6 and the wheelbase is 18 ft. The flooring of thecar is 13 in. yellow pine. The 15-in. channels used forsills were salvaged from an old bridge on the com-panys right-of-way, and the draft beams were salvagedfrom one of the shops. The cab of the locomotive is of wood construction, 4ft. x 6 ft., the material being salvaged and rebuilt froman old work car. The K-14 control equipment used also AIR HOIST BUILT FROMOLD SCRAP 7-IN. BRAKECYLINDERS. LOCOMOTIVE BUILT BY UNION TRACTION Ti. • HANDLECOAL FOR POWER PLANT came from the same car. The trucks were made by theSt. Louis Car Company. The locomotive is equippedwith four GE-57 motors, M-15-C automatic air brakes,Tower couplers and electric markers. A 23-watt head-light is operated in a five-light series with two markersand two lights within the cab. The total weight of thelocomotive is approximately 60,000 lb. It has been found under operating conditions that thelocomotive is a trifle light for handling several cars ofcoal on a grade. Weight will be temporarily added byplacing materials on the platform, and eventually the15 in. of floor space between sills will probably be filletwith concrete. Other locomotives in use by the com-pany have the sloping end hoods, but this equipmentwas built without the hoods so that, if necessity re-quired, it could be used as a general utility car in trans-porting materials or men as well as to pull a train. In th
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