. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . METHOD OF ATTACHING CAR BODY TO TRUCK FRAMES. the truck bolster is of substantial andrigid construction. This truck bolstercarries a heavy centre casting of peculiarconstruction. The centre of thiscasting is a deep, strongly webbed hol-low Cylinder 10 ins. in diameter and about8 ins. deep. The truck bolster also car-ries on each side heavy steel castingsthrough which the two top hanger pinspass. The pins are 4 ins. in diameter and26 ins. long. These pins support hangers4^4 X 25^ ins., the eye
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . METHOD OF ATTACHING CAR BODY TO TRUCK FRAMES. the truck bolster is of substantial andrigid construction. This truck bolstercarries a heavy centre casting of peculiarconstruction. The centre of thiscasting is a deep, strongly webbed hol-low Cylinder 10 ins. in diameter and about8 ins. deep. The truck bolster also car-ries on each side heavy steel castingsthrough which the two top hanger pinspass. The pins are 4 ins. in diameter and26 ins. long. These pins support hangers4^4 X 25^ ins., the eyes of which are 8 ins. wide. _ - — The lower hanger pins pass through the tween the trucks, and prevent a pull atone end of the car from moving onetruck without also at once giving motionto the car. The sills of the car are laterally bracedevery 4 ft. by 54 in. plates secured byknees to the webs of the beams. Wellplates /2 in. thick riveted to the upperfac?s of the lower flanges give thecar asort; of continuous floor between the I-beam girders. A series of holes aredrilled through the well plates
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