. Official proceedings . 4,000 pounds. This car has been loaded with over 200,000pounds of iron ore and its deflection was measured, whichamount was practically 3-16 of an inch in 28 Feet. This carwas loaded with another car. or a portion of it. over on theC A. & C. road about a year ago by having it pushing inover the end. This car was standing next to the last car ina train when another train came along at about 30 miles anhour and hit the last car and demolished it, pushing it partlyinto the car here shown and only bending its end sheet in atthe top. The repairs necessary were to take off t
. Official proceedings . 4,000 pounds. This car has been loaded with over 200,000pounds of iron ore and its deflection was measured, whichamount was practically 3-16 of an inch in 28 Feet. This carwas loaded with another car. or a portion of it. over on theC A. & C. road about a year ago by having it pushing inover the end. This car was standing next to the last car ina train when another train came along at about 30 miles anhour and hit the last car and demolished it, pushing it partlyinto the car here shown and only bending its end sheet in atthe top. The repairs necessary were to take off the end sheetof the car, straighten it ami rivet it back, and there was some-thing done to the draft rigging and the truck, the amount oiwhich I am not informed. That was a severe strain for a Discussion—Knd Shocks in Car Service. 73. 2J4 Proceedings Railway Club of Pittsburgh. car that will only stand a 40/100 pounds buff—or even twiceor three times that amount. The point I am getting at is that a car so designed, stood the service this car, and others just like it, havebeen through for a period of over three years and with noother repairs, I am told, on the body of the car, unless it bea grab iron or something of that sort knocked off from side-swipes—it must be a design that will give good service. Andas one part of the paper to-night stated, we want the light-est cars we can get to stand the work. To build cars of38,000 to 40,000 pounds that do the work no better than thisone. seems to me a useless waste of material. AYe have hearda great deal lately about misappropriation of funds of insur-ance companies. I think the railroads, which are owned bythe people and which companies have engineers employed tolook after their interests in designing cars, should considerit a question of misappropriation o
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