. American engineer and railroad journal . CAR FUU CEYLON GOVEKNMENT ELEVATION AND PLAN OP BOGIE CAR IRON FLAT CAR FOR THE CEYLON GOVERN-MENT RAILWAYS. We give a perspective view and a side elevairon car equipped with bogie trucks, which hasdesigned and built by the Lancaster KailwayWagon Company, Lancaster, England, for theernmeut railways. The truck framing is of theaccordance with the general character of Engltion, and the sills are of 9-in. channels with 3-inthese sills there are four, the intermediate sills16 in. apart. tion of a newrecently been■ Carriage & Ceylon Gov-plate ty
. American engineer and railroad journal . CAR FUU CEYLON GOVEKNMENT ELEVATION AND PLAN OP BOGIE CAR IRON FLAT CAR FOR THE CEYLON GOVERN-MENT RAILWAYS. We give a perspective view and a side elevairon car equipped with bogie trucks, which hasdesigned and built by the Lancaster KailwayWagon Company, Lancaster, England, for theernmeut railways. The truck framing is of theaccordance with the general character of Engltion, and the sills are of 9-in. channels with 3-inthese sills there are four, the intermediate sills16 in. apart. tion of a newrecently been■ Carriage & Ceylon Gov-plate type, inish construc- flanges. Ofbeing spaced > i^u FOB CEYLON GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS, r Weight of under frame 7,9001b8. ■■ body 2,SSi box 4,200 I)rake worlc 9U0 ** • bearing springs 1,170 bufHug springs 540 axle boxes 850 wheels and axles 6 824 Total weight of car 25^306 The wheels arc 3 ft. 7 in. diameter on the tread, and thetires are 5f in. wide over the flanges, the distance betweenthe inside of the flanges of the wheels being 5 ft. 3 in. The brakes are applie
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