. Electric railway journal . ?/„ Plate 8 33, - - ->l Electric SCRANTON RAILWAY COLLISION—FRAMING OF PART OFCAR frame and continuous T-iron post. This car is similarto the one mentioned in the issue of the ELECTRICRailway Journal for March 20, page 556, except thatit is a few feet shorter. The underframe is constructed as follows: The sidesills are of 5-in. x 3-in. x %-in. angles in one piece, bentaround the corner posts and spliced in the center, form-ing the end sill. Crossbars are of 4-in. channels, weigh-ing §y± lb. per foot., with the exception of the first. SCRANTON RAILWAY
. Electric railway journal . ?/„ Plate 8 33, - - ->l Electric SCRANTON RAILWAY COLLISION—FRAMING OF PART OFCAR frame and continuous T-iron post. This car is similarto the one mentioned in the issue of the ELECTRICRailway Journal for March 20, page 556, except thatit is a few feet shorter. The underframe is constructed as follows: The sidesills are of 5-in. x 3-in. x %-in. angles in one piece, bentaround the corner posts and spliced in the center, form-ing the end sill. Crossbars are of 4-in. channels, weigh-ing §y± lb. per foot., with the exception of the first. SCRANTON RAILWAY COLLISION—APPEARANCE OF DAM-AGED CAR crossbar back of the end sill, which is a 6-in. channel,weighing 8 lb. per foot, which takes the strain of theplatform knees. The steel girder plate, 29-in. wide and3/16 in. thick, extends from corner post to corner post,and the end plates, 33-in. wide and 3/16 in. thick, ex-tending from the bulkhead posts and around the cornerposts, connect to the side plates with 2V>-in. battenplates. The top chord of the girder plate is a con- 716 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLV, No. 15 tinuous strip 2Y2 in. x \-> in. Diagonal braces are21/2-in. x %-in. bars. The platform knees are of 7-in. channel, 9Vi lb. perfoot. The center knees extend to the bolster, while theoutside knees anchor to the bottoms of the side knees are bent accurately to shape to meet the con-ditions of platform level and step openings, and aresecurely anchored to the end sill by stirrups and bolts. The flooring is of 13/16-in. x S^-in. tongued andgrooved
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