. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . able. In the designs used it wasintended to utilize every available meansregardless of past practices to provide acar that would furnish and maintainadequate refrigeration for milk andcream, either with ice placed in the ice The bulkhead, in front of the ice cham-ber, should be solid, with an air inlet intothe ice chamber, close to the ceiling, andan outlet into the car, close to the bulkhead should be made of non-conducting material, or should be insu-lated to promote dry refrigera
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . able. In the designs used it wasintended to utilize every available meansregardless of past practices to provide acar that would furnish and maintainadequate refrigeration for milk andcream, either with ice placed in the ice The bulkhead, in front of the ice cham-ber, should be solid, with an air inlet intothe ice chamber, close to the ceiling, andan outlet into the car, close to the bulkhead should be made of non-conducting material, or should be insu-lated to promote dry refrigeration. Thefloor should be smooth to permit slidingthe milk cans into place, and to providea Hat liase for racks when the car is used train is in niotiuii. In this car the sidedoors are of light construction, and theinsulated refrigerator doors are in thetwo partitions. With the exception of thedifferences just mentioned, these two carsare exactly alike and may be described asfollows: The trucks are of special form. Theside-frames arc of cast steel. The side-frame center opeiiincr, the spring r. R. R. RElRlGER.\TOR C.\R INSIDE (i\ IXDERFRAME. bunkers or placed on top of the cansor boxes, and this car is also availablefor other shipments than milk and cream. Past experience and past experimentsindicated the basic requirements, whichmay be summarized as follows: The car to be such as will fill re-quirements should have an inside liningthat is watertight and keeps moistureaway from the insulation. It should for other shipments for which an airspace under the lading is of advantage. Two cars, differing slightly from eachother, for experimental purposes, havehave completed and turned out of theAltoona car shops of the P. Ri R. Car No. 2500 is not partitioned, and allof the space between ice baskets is inone compartment. The side doors are ofthe refrigerator type, and open outward. and the 5 ft. 10-in. wheelbase are thesame as in freight trucks. The ellipticsprings and bolster
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