. Railway mechanical engineer . and clevis attachments between the doors and the operat-ing mechanism. The operating mechanism combines a number of featureswhich are unicjue in car construction. Two sets of doorsare opened simultaneously at one operation and this can beaccomplished from either side of the car. All coal cars of thehopper class on the railroads of the country today have theiroperating mechanisms located on one side of the car onlyand in dumping such cars on trestles, etc., much time is oftenconsumed by the operator in passing back and forth whena number of cars are to be unloade
. Railway mechanical engineer . and clevis attachments between the doors and the operat-ing mechanism. The operating mechanism combines a number of featureswhich are unicjue in car construction. Two sets of doorsare opened simultaneously at one operation and this can beaccomplished from either side of the car. All coal cars of thehopper class on the railroads of the country today have theiroperating mechanisms located on one side of the car onlyand in dumping such cars on trestles, etc., much time is oftenconsumed by the operator in passing back and forth whena number of cars are to be unloaded. Another feature isthat the operator is secure against injury- from a too quickopening of the doors. How these improvements have beenIjrought about will be understood from a description of themechanism. ^^here the two-inch main shaft crosses underneath thespace between the center sills it is formed into a U shaped -^sC OverSide Sfakes.
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