. American engineer and railroad journal . mension! Length over end sills 51 ft. 9% Ins. Length inside of body 60 ft. 3 5/16 ins Width over all 9 ft. 10>4 Ins. Width inside 8 ft. 9 5/16 ins. Height, rail to top of running board 14 ft. 1 In. Height, rati to brake shaft 14 ft. 9 Ins. Height, rail to top of center channels 3 ft. 3H Ins. Height, rail to bottom of center channels at bolsters 2 ft 5% Ins. Height, rail to center of couplers 2 ft. 10% Ins. Distance between centers of trucks 40 ft. Size of journals 4% by 8 Ins. Wheel base of trucks 5 ft. 2 ins. Centers of journals 6 ft. 3 ins. Light
. American engineer and railroad journal . mension! Length over end sills 51 ft. 9% Ins. Length inside of body 60 ft. 3 5/16 ins Width over all 9 ft. 10>4 Ins. Width inside 8 ft. 9 5/16 ins. Height, rail to top of running board 14 ft. 1 In. Height, rati to brake shaft 14 ft. 9 Ins. Height, rail to top of center channels 3 ft. 3H Ins. Height, rail to bottom of center channels at bolsters 2 ft 5% Ins. Height, rail to center of couplers 2 ft. 10% Ins. Distance between centers of trucks 40 ft. Size of journals 4% by 8 Ins. Wheel base of trucks 5 ft. 2 ins. Centers of journals 6 ft. 3 ins. Light weight of car lbs. Capacity 60,000 lbs. These cars are carried on Fox pressed steel trucks 600-lb. wheels. They have cast iron journal boxes,Westinghouse brakes, solid pressed steel brake beams madeby the Pressed Steel Car Company, and the standard twinspring draft -gear of these builders. The cars are equippedwith double sliding doors with Q. & C. fixtures and the Dayton 140 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD Fifty-Ton Ballast ^ar-Union Pacific Railway. Malleable Iron Companys door fasteners. They also have end LARGE POWER PLANT OF THE MANHATTAN RAILWAY, doors at the brake shaft end of each car. The roofs are cov- ered with the Winslow galvanized roofing. New York City. FIFTY-TON BALLAST CAR. ~ ~ Union Pacific Railway. Tne new P°wer station of the Manhattan Elevated Railway,This car is of a unique design intended to deal with 50 tons New York City, will furnish electric power for the third-railof coal or 55 tons of ballast. It has two doors extending along system and will displace about 225 locomotives, which lasteach side of the full length of the bottom of the car body. These year consumed 226,924 tons of coal and 535,000,000 gallons ofare operated in unison by a single operating shaft through the water. The hSe Proportions of this plant are made apparentmedium of a toggle lever which also operates a spreader de- b? the immediate demand that will b
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