. American engineer and railroad journal . 80,000 Pounds Capacity Steel Frame Coal Car-N. & W. 2—Plan and Longitudinal Fig. 3.—Transverse Section Showing Bolster. type trucks, standard to the 50-ton cars. At the time the carwas built the standard truck for 80,000-pound cars had notbeen designed. With these heavy trucks the weight of thecar is 33,700 pounds, but with the new trucks weight willbe reduced to 32,000 pounds or less. The new design of truck shown in Figs. 5 and 6 is similarin many respects to those under a large proportion of theN. & W. rolling stock. It
. American engineer and railroad journal . 80,000 Pounds Capacity Steel Frame Coal Car-N. & W. 2—Plan and Longitudinal Fig. 3.—Transverse Section Showing Bolster. type trucks, standard to the 50-ton cars. At the time the carwas built the standard truck for 80,000-pound cars had notbeen designed. With these heavy trucks the weight of thecar is 33,700 pounds, but with the new trucks weight willbe reduced to 32,000 pounds or less. The new design of truck shown in Figs. 5 and 6 is similarin many respects to those under a large proportion of theN. & W. rolling stock. It is 6 inches shorter in wheel basethan Is used in the trucks under the 50-ton cars, which admitsof light top arch bars, 4% by 1% inches, while the invertedbars are 4% by 1% inches, and the tie bars 41,4 by % inches. 0 j^rk^fp
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