. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . irz>^. MALLEABLE ENDS ON BRAKE RODS. Locomotive Eni/iicei-ing Mr. Harvey Middleton, general superin-tendent of motive power, writing to thisoi^ce on the subject, says: .■Mong in the winter of 1870, there wasan arrangement made by Geo. M. Pull-man with the Baltimore & Ohio, to buildsix sleeping cars, which were constructedat Mt. Clare. These cars had ten sec-tions, and a state room in one end. andwere built with trucks andheated by Baker heaters. Immediately following the first six,there was
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . irz>^. MALLEABLE ENDS ON BRAKE RODS. Locomotive Eni/iicei-ing Mr. Harvey Middleton, general superin-tendent of motive power, writing to thisoi^ce on the subject, says: .■Mong in the winter of 1870, there wasan arrangement made by Geo. M. Pull-man with the Baltimore & Ohio, to buildsix sleeping cars, which were constructedat Mt. Clare. These cars had ten sec-tions, and a state room in one end. andwere built with trucks andheated by Baker heaters. Immediately following the first six,there was a second lot of built, whichwere known as open sleepers, for the rea-son that they had no state room, in orderto give additional room for two more sec-tions, making twelve in all. This latterlot of cars was completed along in 1871. About two years after this, there werefour more cars built, the same being 56feet long and having twelve sections anda smoking room, and they were so wellbuilt that Mr. Pullman was very anxiousto have the Baltimore & Ohio build all ofhis sleepers. Some
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