. American engineer and railroad journal . Half Section at Body Bolster. Half Section at Needle Beam, U- iioj; ^ f t-ZA Plan Showing Underframe and Floor. Metal Gondola Coal Car, 80,000 Pounds Capacity, Chicago & Eastern Illinois by T, A. Lawes, Superintendent of Motive Power. Which permits of using a comparatively low side, and widensthe body of the car materially. The capacity of these cars,when level full, is 1,176 cubic feet, or 1,050 bushels, and theyhave carried loads of 83,500 pounds of coal. The length, in-side, is 35 feet 7% inches; the width, inside, is 9 fe
. American engineer and railroad journal . Half Section at Body Bolster. Half Section at Needle Beam, U- iioj; ^ f t-ZA Plan Showing Underframe and Floor. Metal Gondola Coal Car, 80,000 Pounds Capacity, Chicago & Eastern Illinois by T, A. Lawes, Superintendent of Motive Power. Which permits of using a comparatively low side, and widensthe body of the car materially. The capacity of these cars,when level full, is 1,176 cubic feet, or 1,050 bushels, and theyhave carried loads of 83,500 pounds of coal. The length, in-side, is 35 feet 7% inches; the width, inside, is 9 feet 4 inches,and the height of the sides is 3 feet 6% inches. The lengthover end sills is 36 feet The stakes are secured at the bottomby three-quarter-inch bolts and five-eighths-inch carriage engravings show the framing and the method of con-structing the car and the trucks. There are eight longitudinalsills, 5 by 10 Inches In section, all of yellow pine, while the end The bolster has steel plates for its top and bottom members,with peculiar shaped malleable iron filling blocks between. Thetop plate is % by 11 inches, and the bottom plate is the sa
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