. American engineer . Steel Underframe Car for the Reading End Construction Reinforced by a SteelPlate, Heavy Cross Braces and End Sill Design. The Philadelphia & Reading has in service nearly two tliou-sand steel underframe, 85,000 lb. capacity box cars with a mostsubstantial end construction. One thousand more of the samedesign are now being built by the American Car & FoundryCompany. These cars have an inside length of 32 ft. 2 in., and the superstructure framing and sheathing is of wood with theexception of the carlines and several special steel reinforcingplates. There is but littl
. American engineer . Steel Underframe Car for the Reading End Construction Reinforced by a SteelPlate, Heavy Cross Braces and End Sill Design. The Philadelphia & Reading has in service nearly two tliou-sand steel underframe, 85,000 lb. capacity box cars with a mostsubstantial end construction. One thousand more of the samedesign are now being built by the American Car & FoundryCompany. These cars have an inside length of 32 ft. 2 in., and the superstructure framing and sheathing is of wood with theexception of the carlines and several special steel reinforcingplates. There is but little in the underframe design that dilTers fromthe usual modern practice. The center sills are built up of. End Elevation and Cress Section of Pliiladelphia & Reading Box Car.
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