. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e designis such that the car embodies the prin-ciples of bridge construction as far ascarrying the load is concerned, but thecar has to stand a kind of usage whichbridges are not called upon to sustain,ami that is the pulling and buffing |)laccd, which receive the ends of theshaft of the piece to be carried. Thecar thus becomes equivalentto a pair of beams loaded at the centerand supported near the ends, and thewhole is mounted on a pair of heavyarch bar trucks. There is a brake
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . e designis such that the car embodies the prin-ciples of bridge construction as far ascarrying the load is concerned, but thecar has to stand a kind of usage whichbridges are not called upon to sustain,ami that is the pulling and buffing |)laccd, which receive the ends of theshaft of the piece to be carried. Thecar thus becomes equivalentto a pair of beams loaded at the centerand supported near the ends, and thewhole is mounted on a pair of heavyarch bar trucks. There is a brake mast at each end, sothat in case one of them should be in-terfered with at any time by the load,the other would be available. Our il-lustration shows a man standing at oneend of the car, and a good idea of thecars height as it stands without loadcan be had by comparison with thestature of the standard railroadershown. The fact that the General Elec-tric Company has found it necessary tobuild a number of these cars for thetransportation of its product is a verygood evidence of the prosperity of the. SI 1:i-:l I L.\K II strains and sliocks to which all railwayvehicles are subjected in service. The height of the car above rail levelis 5 ft. 6 ins., and its width over sills is10 ft. The well measures 17 ft. long byS ft. wide, and its lowest point comesdown close to the rail. The plates ofthe well, however, do not support theload, but altogether the well forms aconvenient receptacle and prevents theloss of any small parts should theyshake loose or drop from the armatureor field magnets when being carried onthe car. The tare weight of the car is , and there are short center sills ateach end, extending from the body bol-sters to the end sills. The constructionof the body bolsters is such that theypractically form box girders across thecar and are of unusual depth. Thespaces between the side sills and theshort center sills are boxed in so as toform receptacles in which s
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