. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . an African R^ illustration shows an 80,000 steel hopper dump car used onthe Central South African Railways. Itis built of plate and structural steelshapes and was turned out by the Dar- base of each truck is 5 ft. The wheelsthemselves arc 2 ft. 9/4 ins. in total height of the car from the railis 9 ft. 9 ins. The body length is 36 ins., and the width is 7 ft. 6 journals are 10 ins. long and 5 diameter. The car is equipped withthe Westinghouse
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . an African R^ illustration shows an 80,000 steel hopper dump car used onthe Central South African Railways. Itis built of plate and structural steelshapes and was turned out by the Dar- base of each truck is 5 ft. The wheelsthemselves arc 2 ft. 9/4 ins. in total height of the car from the railis 9 ft. 9 ins. The body length is 36 ins., and the width is 7 ft. 6 journals are 10 ins. long and 5 diameter. The car is equipped withthe Westinghouse brake and the brakeand auxiliary reservoirs are carried ona suitable framing at one end of thecar. War on the Pullman Microbe. The railway surgeons of the UnitedStates recommended, at their last an-nual convention, that three sheets shouldbe used in each sleeping car bed. Twoare placed as usual, one above and onebelow the sleeper, and the third to beused as a blanket-cover, for sanitarypurposes. The Pullman Company is saidto intend to make trial of the plan. The idea that the three-sheet bed will. SOITH .\FRICAN STlJia HOPPEK C.^K. lington Wagon & Engineering Com-pany. Ltd. The axle boxes support semi-ellipticsprings, the ends of which are securedby clips attached to the truck boxes work in jaws, but they areplaced almost at the back of box. Thetruck sides are made of formed orpressed steel plates. The hoppers discharge on each sidebetween the rails. The side view ofthe car shows the fixed sides of thehoppers, the doors not being seen inthe illustration. A worm gear operatedby the crank handle in the center ofthe (Mr moves the dumping mechanismand opens and closes the hopper doors. The car weighs light, 36,500 lbs., andcan take a load of lbs., making atotal of lbs. The truck centersare 25 ft. 8 ins. apart, and the wheel foil the microbe is based on the beliefthat cold, clean linen is distasteful to him,and that when he. desiring to nestlesnug in the wa
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