. American engineer and railroad journal . CABOOSE. Virginian Railway. The Virginian Railway has recently placed in service a num-ber of cabooses that were designed for use on the mountaindivisions where Mallet compound locomotives, having a tractiveforce of 80,000 lbs., are used for pushing. The underframe ismade unusually strong, the center sills and draft gear being thesame, as far as conditions will permit, as those on the steel coal cars on that road. In a rear end collision one of these cabooseswas not damaged although an ordinary caboose under the sameconditions would have been complete
. American engineer and railroad journal . CABOOSE. Virginian Railway. The Virginian Railway has recently placed in service a num-ber of cabooses that were designed for use on the mountaindivisions where Mallet compound locomotives, having a tractiveforce of 80,000 lbs., are used for pushing. The underframe ismade unusually strong, the center sills and draft gear being thesame, as far as conditions will permit, as those on the steel coal cars on that road. In a rear end collision one of these cabooseswas not damaged although an ordinary caboose under the sameconditions would have been completely wrecked. The center sillsare 15-in., 40-lb., channels; they are covered with a 5 20 in. wide and are reinforced at the bottom, between thebolsters, by 3l/2 x 3-in. angles. They are tied together, betweenthe bolsters, by three pressed steel diaphragms and are con-nected to the wooden side sills by J^-in. rods and 4 x 8-in. tim-bers, as shown. The bolsters are built up of pressed steel members between. DETAILS OF CABOOSE WITH STEEL UNDERFRAME, VIRGINIAN RAILWAY. October, 1909. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 403
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