. Electric railway journal . company did not consider thisold style truck suitable for continuous service. Rather than to buy new trucks, it tackled the problem ofchanging these trucks to bolster type, with completelysatisfactory results. Some of these trucks have beenin daily service practically two years and have devel-oped no trouble. Eight or twelve more of these truckswill be changed over to the bolster type during the com-ing j^ear. In the change-over the company used only the formerside bars, journal boxes, wheels, axles and springs ofthe old trucks, using the same motors, too, of cours
. Electric railway journal . company did not consider thisold style truck suitable for continuous service. Rather than to buy new trucks, it tackled the problem ofchanging these trucks to bolster type, with completelysatisfactory results. Some of these trucks have beenin daily service practically two years and have devel-oped no trouble. Eight or twelve more of these truckswill be changed over to the bolster type during the com-ing j^ear. In the change-over the company used only the formerside bars, journal boxes, wheels, axles and springs ofthe old trucks, using the same motors, too, of was naturally necessary to equip the trucks withnewly designed brake rigging throughout and also toequip them with bolster, transom angles and with springplanks. The bolster with which these trucks are equipped is-a specially designed cast iron bolster, made in thefoundry of the company in Atlanta. The accompanyingdrawing indicates the design and dimensions of this,bolster, which is so constructed that the company was-. ■ /p—- /^--^^j o o o o o o o o o Bottom Plan xJk-^^wSPECIAT^ BOLSTER FOR REMODELED TRUCK able to use the four coiled springs which were pre-viously provided in the original truck to carry the carbody. These springs are 7 in. long and have six turnsof y|-in. wire. The diameter of the coil at the top is Aiin. and at the bottom 5 in. The bolster centers are 25 in. from the center of thesmall wheel axles and 23 in. from the center of the largewheel axles. Twenty-inch and 33-in. wheels are the remodeled truck the motors are outside hungwith nose suspension. The motors themselves areWestinghouse No. 68, with a gear ratio of 14 to 68. The car bodies are some that were built by the com-pany some twenty years ago. As remodeled, the totalweight of the body, truck and equipment is 24,500 is seating capacity for forty passengers. Thecontrol on these cars is Westinghouse PK. The total cost of remodeling these trucks has provedto be about $300 per tr
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