. American engineer and railroad journal . Fig. 1898. prairie fires exceedingly promising. There is no reason to ob-ject to a return to former practice when the results justify it,and where diamond stacks work better than open ones, theyshould be used. 162 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. TRUCKS FOR CARS. IMPROVEMENTS IN BOILER MATERIAL. Cast Steel Truck and Body Bolsters. Delaware & Hudson Canal Company. Through the courtesy of Mr. R. C. Blackall, Superintendentof Machinery of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, weare enabled to illustrate the design of truc
. American engineer and railroad journal . Fig. 1898. prairie fires exceedingly promising. There is no reason to ob-ject to a return to former practice when the results justify it,and where diamond stacks work better than open ones, theyshould be used. 162 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. TRUCKS FOR CARS. IMPROVEMENTS IN BOILER MATERIAL. Cast Steel Truck and Body Bolsters. Delaware & Hudson Canal Company. Through the courtesy of Mr. R. C. Blackall, Superintendentof Machinery of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, weare enabled to illustrate the design of trucks with cast steeltruck and body bolsters, useu under a number of gondola carsof 80,000 pounds capacity. This truck is of the arch bar type, with the column guidesand spring seats combined in steel castings. The spring plankis in the form of a 12 by 20-inch channel. The whole arrange-ment was designed with a view of reducing the number ofseparate pieces to the minimum and at the same time to pro-duce a structure that would be suff
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