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Identifier: railwaymechanica95newy (find matches)
Title: Railway mechanical engineer
Year: 1916 (1910s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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e and 7 ft. Sl/2 in.deep. This gives a coal space of 3,212 cu. ft. when levelfull, or 3,703 cu. ft. when heaped at an angle of 30 deg.Using a factor of 54 lb. per cu. ft., the heaped load wouldweigh 200,000 lb. The cars, however, are stenciled as of182,000 lb. capacity to provide for a 10 per cent overload.The length over striking castings is 44 ft. 7TS in.; the maxi-mum outside width is 10 ft. 3y$ in., and the height fromtop of rail to top of sides is 11 ft. The distance from centerto center of the trucks is 30 ft. lyi in. and the trucks, whichare of the Lewis six-wheel type, have a wheelbase of 9 ft.The light weight of the car is 68,300 lb. and the weight oneach axle with the car loaded is 44,717 lb. The center sills are made up of two 12-in., 35-lb. channelswith flanges facing out and reinforced at the bottom by 3^2in. by 3^2 in. by jMs-in. angles, extending between the draftgears, and at the top by the %-m. floor plates. There is 627 628 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER Vol. 95, No. 10
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OcTOBtR, 1921 RAILWAY MECHANII \l. ENGINEER 629 also a reinforcement in the center of die car on top of thefloor plates consisting of a )4 n- plate 20 in. wide andextending slightly beyond the door openings. The body bolsters are of cast steel. They are in one piece,30 in. deep, located inside of the car body and reachingfrom side to side of the car on top of the floor. The bodycenter plates are of cast steel, 16 in. in diameter, and have seven pressed steel braces, as will be noted from the illustra-tion showing the side view of the car. The side sheets areset in at the ends to bring the grab irons inside of the outerface of the side sheets and are flanged over the end sheets.Reinforcing plates are provided at the ends of the bodybolsters. The two sides are tied together by two crossbraces,one at each intermediate gusset brace. They are constructed

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