. Official proceedings . airs, has been in continuous service since June 1897,and is therefore over 18 years old. It is an 80,000 poundcapacity car of the hopper type; has a cubical capacity of 1286■cubic feet; weight new 35,700 pounds; weight last time weighedin June of this year, 35,200 pounds. The car was built of•wrought iron by the Youngstown Bridge Company and is in■good condition today. The original sills, bolsters, end sills and•draft members, as well as the sides, are still on the car. The■ car received heavy repairs in the years 1912 and 1915 at an 40 approximate total cost of $
. Official proceedings . airs, has been in continuous service since June 1897,and is therefore over 18 years old. It is an 80,000 poundcapacity car of the hopper type; has a cubical capacity of 1286■cubic feet; weight new 35,700 pounds; weight last time weighedin June of this year, 35,200 pounds. The car was built of•wrought iron by the Youngstown Bridge Company and is in■good condition today. The original sills, bolsters, end sills and•draft members, as well as the sides, are still on the car. The■ car received heavy repairs in the years 1912 and 1915 at an 40 approximate total cost of $ After a close inspection ofthe photograph 1 do not believe there is any one present whowill say that the appearance of this car indicates that it should■go to the scrap pile. In addition to the photographs already presented, I take theliberty oi showing a photograph received from our friendMr. F. W. Dickinson, Master Car Builder of the Bessemer andLake Erie Railroad. He adivses that this is a photograph of. Figure 6 their first steel car. The car is over 19 years old, having beenbuilt in 1896, and from the information received from I believe this car has received at different times classrepairs such as I have already described, and Mr. Dickinsonstates that all the cars in this series are in almost as good con-dition as when first built. This will show that the Bessemerand Lake Hrie Railroad is one of the pioneers in the steel cargame, yet Mr. Dickinson advised it was practically impossiblefor him to make any definite statement as to the probable lifeof a steel car. As has been stated in the first part of this paper opinionshave been received ranging from eight to fifty years as beingthe average life of a steel car, but believe you will agree with 41 me that as long as this type of car meets the requirements asto carrying capacity and stands up under the service for whichit was intended, justice would not be done the steel car werewe to try to place a
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