. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . the dining carsis [jrobably smaller still. So why is it necessary to caterat such an expense to the extravagant few ? Why cantjieojile be content to jjicnic occasionally? No one feelsthat he is getting his moneys worth on a dining car, andyet every ])atnpn is an f)bjict of charity. It does seemas though there should be some solution to the diningcar problem. .Simpler tastes on the part of the travelingjniblic, or at least tastes more in accord with home con-ditions and surroundings; lower pri
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . the dining carsis [jrobably smaller still. So why is it necessary to caterat such an expense to the extravagant few ? Why cantjieojile be content to jjicnic occasionally? No one feelsthat he is getting his moneys worth on a dining car, andyet every ])atnpn is an f)bjict of charity. It does seemas though there should be some solution to the diningcar problem. .Simpler tastes on the part of the travelingjniblic, or at least tastes more in accord with home con-ditions and surroundings; lower prices to meet [wpularpurses, might accomplish it, but would it work? I amnot enough of a psychologist to say. .\gain it may beremarked that it is much simpler to suggest lieliingthe cat than it is to ])erform the operation of doing it. Hutchins Channel Steel End for Box andGondola Cars The end construction of freight cars has come to hea specialty of itself. The demand came because of thegreat increase in car capacities, and the tendency of theheavy lading to shift, because of rough handling, and to. Car Equipped With Hutchins Channel Steel End put a corresponding pressure uixm the end framing of thecar. It is diflknilt to state as to just what jwrtion of thisthrust has to be carrierl by the end of the car in any givencase, but from a theoretical standpoint, if a car is stoppedfrom a sjieed of 4/^ miles an hour in lyi ft. the ladingexerts a total thrust of about one half its weight, which September, 1923 R.\IL\VAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 291 1™ must be taken up by the car framing. The design for meeting this thrustupon the end of the car that is here illus-trated is one that is manufactured by theHutchins Car Roofing Co. of Detroit,Mich. The end is shown in both thehalftone and line engravings, as appliedto a box car, though it is also used forgondola cars. It is of steel pressed to achannel section, with the channels ortroughs tapering out to the flat at theends. For box ca
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