. American engineer and railroad journal . -[sland & Pacific Railroad. The motive power of thiscar consists of a ->.so , two-cylinder compound steam enginehaving cylinders ts of two 8 in. I-beams forming a sills and 6 x 4 x K- sills. The side sills are further reinforcedby another 6 x 4 x /• in. angle for a distance of 20 ft. at thefront end. The end sills arc 8 in. steel channels and a numberof steel angles are secured between the center and side sills be-tween the holsters. These cross braces, in addition to forming. STEAM MOTOR CAK—CHICAGO, Roc K ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILROAD. total le
. American engineer and railroad journal . -[sland & Pacific Railroad. The motive power of thiscar consists of a ->.so , two-cylinder compound steam enginehaving cylinders ts of two 8 in. I-beams forming a sills and 6 x 4 x K- sills. The side sills are further reinforcedby another 6 x 4 x /• in. angle for a distance of 20 ft. at thefront end. The end sills arc 8 in. steel channels and a numberof steel angles are secured between the center and side sills be-tween the holsters. These cross braces, in addition to forming. STEAM MOTOR CAK—CHICAGO, Roc K ISLAND AND PACIFIC RAILROAD. total length, weighs lbs. in working order and has a ca-pacity of 40 passengers in addition to a good size baggage com-partment. Test runs have shown it to he capable of speeds of60 miles per hour. The distribution of weights is such as to give38,300 lbs. on the trailing truck, and 61,700 lbs. on the motortruck, of which 32,400 lbs. is on the driving wheels. The theo-retical tractive effort, working compound, is 4,300 lbs. The car body was built at the Wilmington Works of the Amer-ican Car & Foundry Co., and the primary object in the designwas to make it as light as possible, consistent with the properee of strength for a car operating singly. With this in mind,a type of construction which employs truss rods for reinforcing • For description nf oiher steam motor ens sec this Journal 100G, and 331 (C. P. R.) 1907, pp. 141 (Ganz, C. R. I. & P.); 312 (Ganz,Erie); 391 (Intercolonial); 145 (Ganz, Interco
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