. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . tfrom rail to top of eaves lower deck,12 ft. 2 ins.; height from rail to top ofbody center plate, 2 ft. 5 ins.; heightfrom rail to center of drawbar, 2 ins.; height from rail to top offloor, 4 ft. 4 ins. The framing is composed of two 18-in. rolled channel center sills and twoS x Zl/2 x 9/16 in. rolled channelside sills tied together by pressed steelcross bearers and 6-in. rolled channeldiaphragms. Side posts are of pressedsteel, channel shaped, and corner postsare 4-in. Z-bars with 3
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . tfrom rail to top of eaves lower deck,12 ft. 2 ins.; height from rail to top ofbody center plate, 2 ft. 5 ins.; heightfrom rail to center of drawbar, 2 ins.; height from rail to top offloor, 4 ft. 4 ins. The framing is composed of two 18-in. rolled channel center sills and twoS x Zl/2 x 9/16 in. rolled channelside sills tied together by pressed steelcross bearers and 6-in. rolled channeldiaphragms. Side posts are of pressedsteel, channel shaped, and corner postsare 4-in. Z-bars with 3/16-in. coverplates. The belt rail is a 4-in. x l/2 in. composite board for the upper deckand /4n. composite board for lowerdeck. The flooring is of Carbolith, laidon No. 16 gauge corrugated steel, \/2ins. thick throughout All of the letter cases, paper cases,pouch racks, tables and fittings are lbs . making the total weight of lbs. Electric Furnaces, University of Illinois. There have recently been installed atthe University of Illinois, through thecombined efforts of the department of. INTERIOR OF U. S. ALL-STEEL RAILWAY POST OFFICE CAR. steel, the tops of tables being coveredwith sheet rubber glued to Monolith. The cars are heated with the vaporsystem and lighted by electricity, andare also equipped with a set of storagebatteries. All cars are equipped withWestinghouse Air Brakes, SchedulePM-1612, high speed reducing valvesand American automatic slack adjuster; Electrical Engineering, The EngineeringExperiment Station and the Departmentof Chemistry, two electric furnaces. Oneof these is a Hoskins resistance furnaceand the other a Colb induction are of 20 kw. capacity. Thefurnaces will be used for the purpose ofstudying the changes that can be broughtabout in the mechanical and physical
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