. Electric railway journal . adopted by the Erie RailroadCompany has been devised. The additional weight of material incorporated in this heavy body-end structure is more than offset by the re-duction in weight effected elsewhere by the truss-sideconstruction. The complete weight of the car, includingtrucks but excluding lighting equipment, is only 111,000lb.—materially less than the weight of the wooden carswith steel underframes now used by the Erie. Thelength is 78 ft. For the new cars the framing system is similar tothat employed in the Erie suburban cars described inthe Electric Railway J
. Electric railway journal . adopted by the Erie RailroadCompany has been devised. The additional weight of material incorporated in this heavy body-end structure is more than offset by the re-duction in weight effected elsewhere by the truss-sideconstruction. The complete weight of the car, includingtrucks but excluding lighting equipment, is only 111,000lb.—materially less than the weight of the wooden carswith steel underframes now used by the Erie. Thelength is 78 ft. For the new cars the framing system is similar tothat employed in the Erie suburban cars described inthe Electric Railway Journal for June 12, 1915,except that the windows are rectangular, whereas thewindow openings of the suburban cars are Gothic. Ineach case, however, the side sheathing, posts and letter-boards, composing the full height of the side walls, areframed together into a truss and act as a load-carryingmember. This form of construction produces a struc-ture free from appreciable deflection and without ten-dency to work at NON-TELESCOPING CAR—CONVENTIONAL REPRESENTATION OF REINFORCEMENT AT CAR ENDS June 30, 1917] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 1187 At the bottom of the side frame of the car is an angleside sill 4 in. x 3y2 in. x % in. The main side posts,or piers, are on approximately 5-ft. 11-in. piers are C-shaped pressings, 12 in. wide x4% in. deep. The upper member of the side frame,corresponding to the letterboard, is a pressed channelh1/^ in. x 3/16 in. The bracing of the piers is accom-plished by riveting to the side sheathing and to the beltrail below the windows, and by the letterboard andupper belt rail above the windows. This method of con-struction produces a load-carrying truss 7 ft. 7 in. inheight by 70 ft. long, with suitable openings for win-dows, as compared with the usual construction havinga plain girder 3 ft. high and 70 ft. long below thewindow sill. On the center sills, which are composed of 12-in.,25-lb. channels, is a top cover plate, and the
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