. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . olling departmentof the Stephenson establishment at thattime was the sash room, which was smalland was always behind, although twomen and a boy were working nearly nightand day to supply the demand of the otherdepartments. It was inconvenient to finda room where more men could bo em- A Novel Car Frame. A patent lias been taken out for a doublehopper bottom gondola car, which is-framed on the old familiar lines of plates,sills and side stakes, with twin hoppersbelow. There are some entirely newfancies wor
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . olling departmentof the Stephenson establishment at thattime was the sash room, which was smalland was always behind, although twomen and a boy were working nearly nightand day to supply the demand of the otherdepartments. It was inconvenient to finda room where more men could bo em- A Novel Car Frame. A patent lias been taken out for a doublehopper bottom gondola car, which is-framed on the old familiar lines of plates,sills and side stakes, with twin hoppersbelow. There are some entirely newfancies worked out to give strength to theframing (always weak in this type of car).by putting sheet metal on the side of theframe as a stiflfener. The difficulty of truss-ing such a car is well known, since thecentral portion is taken up by hoppers. Inthis case the simplest form of a truss isused, consisting of two diagonal bracesand a tie-rod. The feet of the braces reston the body bol-ters. and the tops of sameabut just above the coal sides, from whichpoint the tie-rod passes down between the-. FIG. g. READY FOR THE SHOP. Another man who e performance bringssurprises under the piece work test is thequiet apathetic workman who plods alongand never seems to be doing his the day work period, you fumeand make mental complaints about thatman you cannot instill some ac-tivity into his movements; but you can-not say that he is idling or wasting histime, and so you just tolerate him andthink you deserve special credit from onhigh for not discharging him. But whenthe piece work system was inauguratedyou found that the slow man kept on inhis slow ways—did not make a move-ment faster than usual, but to your as-tonishment, at the end of the week, youfound that he had earned more than any ployed on this work, and Stephenson de-cided to try piece work; and after cal-culating what each sash was costing him,intimated to the men in charge of thesash room that all work in fu
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