. American engineer and railroad journal . ly-i ins. high, of 14-ln. plate,stiffened by pressed steel posts riveted to the plate, makingpanels 3 ft. 6% ins. long. At the top of the sides and endsthe side plates have an outward flange of 3V4 ins. to serve as atop chord. Three pressed steel struts of inverted V sectiontie the side across the car at the top. The floor of this carrests directly on the sills. The end sill is a %-in plate of pressed steel, giving a plat-form 11 ins. wide at each end of the car. This is not cut forthe draft gear because of the slope to the floor at the ends ofthe car
. American engineer and railroad journal . ly-i ins. high, of 14-ln. plate,stiffened by pressed steel posts riveted to the plate, makingpanels 3 ft. 6% ins. long. At the top of the sides and endsthe side plates have an outward flange of 3V4 ins. to serve as atop chord. Three pressed steel struts of inverted V sectiontie the side across the car at the top. The floor of this carrests directly on the sills. The end sill is a %-in plate of pressed steel, giving a plat-form 11 ins. wide at each end of the car. This is not cut forthe draft gear because of the slope to the floor at the ends ofthe car. In order to illustrate the interesting end construction NovEMBEB, 1903. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 4 03 and that of the bolster a dntail drawing has been also shows the draft gear which employed a single Gm cars were mounted on the Vogt trucks, having sideframes of the diamond type, of pressed steel.(To be continued.) NEW LOCOMOTIVE , PA. & Reading Rau-wat. (Continued From Page 358.) CAPACITY OF THE GENEBATING APPABATU8. An important feature of the problem of designing the electrl-|n •■if cal equipment for the Reading locomotive shops was that ofchoosing the total and Individual capacities of generator unitsto be used for the electrical generating equipment of the powerplant. The applicability of the method used for determiningtheir capacities, as well as also the successful results In opera-tion of the sizes chosen, reflects very favorably upon those re-sponsible for the design. The method employed in determining the total generatorcapacity was that of making a careful estimate of all the powerthat should be required for the operation of the shops—theresult was used as a basis from which to select the total andindividual capacities for the generator units to be accuracy this estimate was divided between the constantload and variable load classes of power consumption. The
Size: 1730px × 1444px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectrailroadengineering
