. The Street railway journal . or the floors of car storagesheds. F. E. Fisher, general manager, states that it was for-merly the practice of this company, as of many others, to puta cinder floor in the portions of the car liouse used for thestorage of cars. It was found that in a car house with such a top dressing of fine limestone on the floor of the storagehouse, and no such trouble has been experienced as was for-merly found with the cinder floors. HOPPER AND BOTTOM DUMP CARS The accompanying illustration shows a type of hopper orbottom-dump car which is being introduced for ballast workon
. The Street railway journal . or the floors of car storagesheds. F. E. Fisher, general manager, states that it was for-merly the practice of this company, as of many others, to puta cinder floor in the portions of the car liouse used for thestorage of cars. It was found that in a car house with such a top dressing of fine limestone on the floor of the storagehouse, and no such trouble has been experienced as was for-merly found with the cinder floors. HOPPER AND BOTTOM DUMP CARS The accompanying illustration shows a type of hopper orbottom-dump car which is being introduced for ballast workon interurban electric railroads. Provision is made for open-ing the dumping doors at the bottom either lengthwise or cross-wise, as may be desired. The car is built of white oak, and allcorners are reinforced both on the outside and inside withheavy steel plate angles. The hopper on the inside of the catis lined 12 ins. deep with 3-16-in. steel plate, and the inside ofthe doors is also covered with similar material. The car has. DUMP CAR FiiR INTERURBAN ELECTRIC RAILWAY CON-STRUCTION diamond-frame steel running gear with two cross girths of The draft timbers are clipped to the I-beams and endsills to make them rigid, and the bed is Ijolted to the frameworkof the car, which is made of 5-in. x 9-in. tinil)er. The doorsare operated by chains fastened to a heavy steel rod crossingthe car and manipulated by geared sprocket wheels. Solid plate-chilled face wheels, 24 ins. in diameter, are pressed im ham-mered iron axles 4j ins. round, with bronzed brass jnurnals34 ins. X 7 ins. 1lie car is furnishe<l with l)rakes when de-sired. The dimensions arc: Box, 96 ins. long by 76 ins. wideby 55 ins. deep; height, from rail to draw-bar, 27 ins.; door, 19ins. X 55 ins. The capacity of the car is 6 cu. yds. This car was designed by the Kilbourne & Jacobs Manufac-turing Company, of Columbus. 384 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXL No. lo. NEW CARS FOR THE PENNSYLVANIA REGION COMBINA
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