. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . he standard carriage is about 30 feetlong, and, with the exception of a few ex-cursion and special cars, is divided intocompartments, the seats running cross-ways the car. Three pairs of wheels, onepair at either end and one pair in the cen-ter. Corridor cars vary in length from 40 to65 feet. Where aisle is in center of car,the seats on one side accommodate twopersons and on the other side one per-son. Tliis arrangement is necessary from brake beams. Every beam tested beforebeing put in service. Steel an
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . he standard carriage is about 30 feetlong, and, with the exception of a few ex-cursion and special cars, is divided intocompartments, the seats running cross-ways the car. Three pairs of wheels, onepair at either end and one pair in the cen-ter. Corridor cars vary in length from 40 to65 feet. Where aisle is in center of car,the seats on one side accommodate twopersons and on the other side one per-son. Tliis arrangement is necessary from brake beams. Every beam tested beforebeing put in service. Steel and iron areused quite extensively for side and inter-mediate sills. The body of carriage Lsbolted to sills pretty much as we bolt ourtenders to the tender frames, and in someinstances about as insecurely. All slack is taken up by the screw coup-lings. Mansell wheels are used almost ex-clusively under passenger wheels have cast hubs, steel tiresand wood filling. Many of the cars are illuminated withcompressed oil gas. Oil lamps are usedin large numbers, however. Whore oil. BEADING FLUES WITH PNEUMATIC SHOP, ILL. CENTRAL. the fact that the cars are only 8 feet 6inches wide. The shorter cars of thisclass have three pairs of wheels. Thelonger ones are carried on two 4 or 6-wheel trucks. What few sleeping cars I saw were 42feet long, divided into four compart-ments, and accommodate only eight per-sons. Two brass bedsteads, each ofwhich are a little narrower than a singlebed, in each compartment; no upperberths; $ per berth; by paying torboth berths passenger can have entirecompartment. Although windows areprovided with curtains, a large curtain,quite thick, is hung over the on one side of car; lavatories at eachend. Passenger trains are equipped with con-tinuous brakes of the Westinghouse orautomatic vacuum pattern. Some of thecarriages are equipped with both. Iron is used, lamp is put in position through atrap door in the roof and mu
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