. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . this design. Soitie railway men who were consulted thought themove was entirely too bold, even to the point of rash-ness, and predicted its failure. When the design wasshown to Mr. Clarence Howard, President, Common-wealth Steel Company, he not only said it could bemade, but that he was then working on similar linesand at once purchased the patent, since then he notonly develo])ed this particular feature of locomotivedesign but has gone much farther in simplifying bothpassenger and freight ca
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . this design. Soitie railway men who were consulted thought themove was entirely too bold, even to the point of rash-ness, and predicted its failure. When the design wasshown to Mr. Clarence Howard, President, Common-wealth Steel Company, he not only said it could bemade, but that he was then working on similar linesand at once purchased the patent, since then he notonly develo])ed this particular feature of locomotivedesign but has gone much farther in simplifying bothpassenger and freight car construction by displacingeven a greater number of parts with one single casting. The Southern Pacific Company has recently con-structed in their own shops at Houston, Texas, tenmodern freight cars in which is embodied a featurewhich is unique in car design and construction, a cast tendent of Motive Power and Equipment of theSouthern Pacific Lines, we have been favored with anumber of photographs, showing these cars both infinished state, and different views of the cast steelcenter sill of One-Piece Cast Steel Underframe ShovCenter Plate ing Bolster and August. 1923 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING 241 The interest in the car centers about this largecenter sill and bolster casting, and the method bywhich the body of the car is supported. First as to the casting itself. It has a length of41 ft. 11J^ in. over all. It consists essentially of twoZ-shaped sections, which are 9 in. high, ^ in. thickin the web and Js in. in the flange. These are nearly30 ft. long in the clear between the flanges of thebolster section. Attention is called to this feature of car is built just as in the case of any ordinary box the center sills alone are supported throughouttheir whole length by the casting, they are all stiffenedand held in the ordinary way by six l}^ in. truss truss rods pass through the end sill and thenup over the posts BBB which are bolted to the top
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