. Railway mechanical engineer . s set a good ex-ample by speeding his lineshafts so that the slowest speedsthat can be obtained on any machine are the slowest that everwill be required. The general effect has been to use higherspeeds on all work from the lowest turning speed to the high-est filing speed.—Machinery. Northern Pacific Passenger Cars Example of Standard Construction for VariousClasses of All-Steel Passenger Train Cars The Northern Pacific has recently received from the PullmanCompany 47 coaches, 22 mail and express cars, 17 baggage carsand 6 dining cars of all-steel construction,
. Railway mechanical engineer . s set a good ex-ample by speeding his lineshafts so that the slowest speedsthat can be obtained on any machine are the slowest that everwill be required. The general effect has been to use higherspeeds on all work from the lowest turning speed to the high-est filing speed.—Machinery. Northern Pacific Passenger Cars Example of Standard Construction for VariousClasses of All-Steel Passenger Train Cars The Northern Pacific has recently received from the PullmanCompany 47 coaches, 22 mail and express cars, 17 baggage carsand 6 dining cars of all-steel construction, 10 of the baggage carsand 4 of the mail and express cars being etiuipped with the headend generator sets of which two were of the axle machine train LcnRth over end sills (Dining Cars) 72 ft. 10 Length over end sills fOther Cars) 70 ft. 10 Width over side sills 10 ft. IM Rail to top of floor 4 ft. 5 M Truck wheels, niiinber and diameter 6—-36 Journals 5 in. by 9 Thf wcieht of the coaches is 141,100 lb.; the mail and express. Northern Pacific All-Steel Passenger Coach lighter type. The interesting feature of these cars is the markedsimilarity in their construction. The trucks are identical, theunderframe practically so, and the framing only different in char-acteristic details, the coaches and diners being designed to carry L, lollyjyli^i^Ht. jQIrder Plate ^ 063xMPMe^ 304Cc<PI i4Phle
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