. The Street railway journal . have it haul passenger coaches or freight cars,as occasion may require. The car body is of unusually heavy construction to providefor the concentrated loads upon the floor. The gasoline enginealone weighs 18,000 lbs. and the generator 6000 lbs., this unitbeing located directly over one of the trucks. Two 6-in., I4)4-Ib. I-beams are used for center sills, and the two side sills are5-in. X 8-in. yellow pine. The four intermediate sills are 6l4-in. yellow pine, making eight sills in all. Transverse sills continuous blocking. Heavy wrought-iron carlines serve
. The Street railway journal . have it haul passenger coaches or freight cars,as occasion may require. The car body is of unusually heavy construction to providefor the concentrated loads upon the floor. The gasoline enginealone weighs 18,000 lbs. and the generator 6000 lbs., this unitbeing located directly over one of the trucks. Two 6-in., I4)4-Ib. I-beams are used for center sills, and the two side sills are5-in. X 8-in. yellow pine. The four intermediate sills are 6l4-in. yellow pine, making eight sills in all. Transverse sills continuous blocking. Heavy wrought-iron carlines serve astrusses across the deck of the car to add to the general stiff-ness. The body truss rods consist of two i^-in. rods with i^-in. ends. There are two compartments in the car, as can beseen by the accompanying plan. The car is 34 ft. long over theend sills and 9 ft. 8 ins. wide over the side sills. About two-Ihirds of the space is given up to an engine room, the balancebeing known as a baggage compartment, although considerable. r - — ! 1 ■
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