. Railway mechanical engineer . Bulkhead Sections and Floor Rack* Raised to Permit LoadingEntire Length of Car Body proximately 16 per cent of all the freight cars which thecompany owtis. Compared with this is a total of 32,282box and furniture cars. Since refrij^erator cars form a com-paratively larf;e proportion of the house cars, the problemof keeping this equipment in revenue-earning service is im-portant, and the road has followed the practice of loadingsuitable commodities in cars for westbound move- ment. As the traffic is fairly well balanced, there has beencomparatively
. Railway mechanical engineer . Bulkhead Sections and Floor Rack* Raised to Permit LoadingEntire Length of Car Body proximately 16 per cent of all the freight cars which thecompany owtis. Compared with this is a total of 32,282box and furniture cars. Since refrij^erator cars form a com-paratively larf;e proportion of the house cars, the problemof keeping this equipment in revenue-earning service is im-portant, and the road has followed the practice of loadingsuitable commodities in cars for westbound move- ment. As the traffic is fairly well balanced, there has beencomparatively little empty mileage, in fact it has sometimesbeen necessary to haul empty cars eastward. In 1920 the Santa Fe needed refrigerator cars and in viewof the excess of westward traffic at that time, a design withcollapsible bunkers \v;is prefiared so that the cars could. haul perishables eastward and be loaded to full cubicalcapacity with box car freight westward. Two thousand fivehundred of these cars were accordingly built, half by the 455 456 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER Vol. 96, No. 8
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