. American engineer and railroad journal . Canadian Pacific Railway has recently built a dyna-mometer car at the Angus shops which is of special interestbecause of the arrangement for transmitting force from thedrawbar to the hydraulic cylinder, and also because of themethod of operating the recording pen. The construction ofthe car, except for the underframing, is similar to the standard caboose used on this road. The center sills are , 37 lbs. per ft., spaced 2G ins. apart. Above eachchannel and between it and the floor is a 4/s-in. wooden sill(i ins. deep. The intermediate and
. American engineer and railroad journal . Canadian Pacific Railway has recently built a dyna-mometer car at the Angus shops which is of special interestbecause of the arrangement for transmitting force from thedrawbar to the hydraulic cylinder, and also because of themethod of operating the recording pen. The construction ofthe car, except for the underframing, is similar to the standard caboose used on this road. The center sills are , 37 lbs. per ft., spaced 2G ins. apart. Above eachchannel and between it and the floor is a 4/s-in. wooden sill(i ins. deep. The intermediate and side sills are 5 by 9 inside dimensions of the car are: length, 28 ft. Gs ins.;width, 8 ft. 6% ins. In addition to the space 10 ft. long atone end of the car, which contains the dynamometer table,there are two sets of upper and lower berths, a kitchen, pan-try, clothes closet, heater room and saloon. The rear endof the car is equipped with Miner tandem spring draft rig-ging. The drawbar at the dynamometer end of the car is of the. DYNAMOMETER CAR.—CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY. 238 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. yr^mi-pmi _ - m fv
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