. American engineer and railroad journal . BOX CAR WITH STEEL UNDERFRAME FOR FREIGHT CARS. A very urgent and general demand for freight car equipment,during the past few years, with the resulting congestion of ordersat the car building companies and their inability to give earlydeliveries, has led many of the railroad companies to build aslarge a part of the new freight equipment as possible at theirown shops. While most railroad car shops are in a position to. N STEEL UNDERFRAME. filling pieces are malleable iron castings. The channel center sillsare continuous from end sill to end si
. American engineer and railroad journal . BOX CAR WITH STEEL UNDERFRAME FOR FREIGHT CARS. A very urgent and general demand for freight car equipment,during the past few years, with the resulting congestion of ordersat the car building companies and their inability to give earlydeliveries, has led many of the railroad companies to build aslarge a part of the new freight equipment as possible at theirown shops. While most railroad car shops are in a position to. N STEEL UNDERFRAME. filling pieces are malleable iron castings. The channel center sillsare continuous from end sill to end sill and are notched andbent over at the end, forming a pocket and support for thewooden end sill. This point is further reinforced by the ad-dition of a buffer angle riveted to the underframe and bolted tothe end sill. This type of underframe is also furnished as a repair featureand is supplied to railroad companies for application to carsrequiring heavy repairs. Slight changes are made in the designfor such conditions and it is usually to fit the regular bodybolster, if that is of metal, to the new underframe. An exampleof the underframe, as thus used for general repairs, is shownin the illustration of the Kanawha & Michigan Railway gon-dola car. The Ralston Steel Car Company is now completing an order of1,500 underframes for the Pullman Compam, a large part ofwhich are being applied to some 60,000 lb. capacity box cars forthe Hocking Valley Railway. An exa
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