. Railway age gazette . Underframe of the Metropolitan District Car construction. These cars are mounted on six-wheel trucks, andwhile not in use on these particular truck frames, it is of in-terest to note that the truss rod arrangement is employed forstrengthening the side frames of steel trucks in some cases on ft. frame the width is 8 ft. 10 in. The center sills are 6 , and both the center and side sills are fitted with lYzin. truss rods with queen posts spaced 14 ft. 5% in. are tliree centra! cross members composed of 6 5/16 Steel Motor Car for the Metropolitan
. Railway age gazette . Underframe of the Metropolitan District Car construction. These cars are mounted on six-wheel trucks, andwhile not in use on these particular truck frames, it is of in-terest to note that the truss rod arrangement is employed forstrengthening the side frames of steel trucks in some cases on ft. frame the width is 8 ft. 10 in. The center sills are 6 , and both the center and side sills are fitted with lYzin. truss rods with queen posts spaced 14 ft. 5% in. are tliree centra! cross members composed of 6 5/16 Steel Motor Car for the Metropolitan District Railway English railways. The West Coast sleeping cars are 72 ft. channels extending in one piece acjoss the frame and passing long over the buffers and 68 ft. long over the end sills with the under the center sills at points 15 ft. 6 in. from each end, while trucks placed at 45 ft. centers. another cross member of the same section is cut by the center In a number of sleeping and buffet cars built within the past sill. The body bolsters are 10 in. channels and extend in one 526 RAILWAY AGE GAZETTE, MECHANICAL EDITION Vol. 88, No. 10 piece across the frame, which is counterbraced with 3 in. by5^ in. flat iron. Steel construction was also used in some of the older SudanGovernment cars, in which the side sills were of channel sec-tion 7ys in. deep and the center sills of the same cross frame is 45 ft. over the end sills and again the truss rodconstruction is employed, the side sills being trussed by tie rods\% in. in diameter, the
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