. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . of the de-sign, and consists of tongued andgrooved pine, ij4 in. thick, laidhorizontally and bolted to the inside ofthe posts and braces. The method ofattaching does away with the need foroutside sheathing, which has been uni- slotted. The floor supports are 3-in. Z-bars in place of the usual wooden nail-ing strip. The floor is bolted to theseZ-irons. The trucks are of the arch bar type,and have McCord journal boxes, Sim-plex bolsters. Barber rollers, Susemihlside bearings, channel cross
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . of the de-sign, and consists of tongued andgrooved pine, ij4 in. thick, laidhorizontally and bolted to the inside ofthe posts and braces. The method ofattaching does away with the need foroutside sheathing, which has been uni- slotted. The floor supports are 3-in. Z-bars in place of the usual wooden nail-ing strip. The floor is bolted to theseZ-irons. The trucks are of the arch bar type,and have McCord journal boxes, Sim-plex bolsters. Barber rollers, Susemihlside bearings, channel cross ties andcast steel columns, and inside-hungmetal brake beams. The brakes areWestinghouse, Schedule-K C 812; draw Adhesion and correspondent calling herself a fe-male reader of Railway and Engineering, writes: The wordadhesion is frequently mentioned inyour paper, but I have never seen anyexplanation of what adhesion means. Inmy desire for knowledge concerning adetail of my brothers business, I haveconsulted Websters unabridged diction-ary, but that does not make the ques-. ROOF OF C. P. R. BOX CAR SHOWING .STEEL CARLINES. gear. Miner Tandem class G springs;couplers, Simple.\; roof, Chicago Winslowimproved, inside. These cars are very easy to repairwhen damaged. An instance of thiswas shown by a car which had beensideswiped, with the result that theside posts and braces were bent con-siderably out of shape. The lining wasremoved and the framing jacked intoplace without heating or cutting lining w^as then replaced, the whole
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