. The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances . Fig. 40.—Mohawk & Hudson Car, 183 i.(From the original drawing by the resident engineer.) Fig. 41.—Early Car.(From an old print.) before the date of his patent it was a practice to load firewood byconnecting two such cars with long timbers, which rested on bol- 140 AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES AND Pig_ 42—Eariy Car on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. sters attached by kingbolts to the cars. The wood was loaded ontop of these timbers, as shown in Figure 45. An old car (Fig. 46),which antedated Winans patent and was
. The American railway; its construction, development, management, and appliances . Fig. 40.—Mohawk & Hudson Car, 183 i.(From the original drawing by the resident engineer.) Fig. 41.—Early Car.(From an old print.) before the date of his patent it was a practice to load firewood byconnecting two such cars with long timbers, which rested on bol- 140 AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVES AND Pig_ 42—Eariy Car on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. sters attached by kingbolts to the cars. The wood was loaded ontop of these timbers, as shown in Figure 45. An old car (Fig. 46),which antedated Winans patent and was used at the Ouincy granite quarries for carryinglarge blocks of stone, was alsointroduced as evidence for thedefendants in that suit. Al-though Winans was not able toestablish the validity of his pat-ent on eio-ht-wheeled cars withtwo trucks, he was undoubtedly one of the first to put it into prac-tical form, and did a great deal to introduce the system. The progress in the construction of cars has been fully as greatas in that of locomotives. If the old stage-coach bodies on wheelsare compared with a vestibule train of to-day the difference will bevery striking. Most of us who are no longer young can recall thedays when sleeping-cars were unknown, when a journey from anEastern city to Chicago meant forty-eight hours or more of sittingerect in a car with thirty or
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