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Train Shed Cyclopedia #67
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| (1925)Motor Passenger Cars and Construction Details (Part 5) from The 1925 Car Builders Cyclopedia - 64 full size pages – Reprinted from the Original Cyclopedia Editions
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| Articles included in this edition: Motor Passenger Cars: Gasoline. – The J.G. Brill Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A. – A solution of the high operating cost problem encountered on short and branch line railroads is offered by the development of the Brill Model 55 Gasoline Car. In comparison with the expense of operating the usual steam car equipment employed in this service, the operating cost of these gasoline cars is exceptionally low, in one case being under 16 cents per car mile. ** Motor Passenger Cars: Gas-Electric. – The Electro-Motive Company, Cleveland, Ohio – This new type of gas-electric passenger car, the first of which have recently been delivered to the Chicago Great Western and to the Northern Pacific, has been in process of development by the Electro-Motive Company and the General Electric Company for about three years. ** Freight Car Construction – The construction and operation of freight cars on American railroads has resulted in the adoption of certain fundamentals of design which general practice has shown to be most practicable. This subject has for many years been studied by a committee of the Mechanical Division of the American Railway Association and the Standards and recommended practices which have been adopted for guidance in building such equipment, are as follows: Car Sills, Steel and Wooden – Sills. – Body. – Design and Strength of Box Car End. – Design and Strength of Box Car End. – Freight Car Construction: Marking: Stakes. – Stake Pockets-Permanent and Temporary – Placard Boards for House Cars – Lettering and Marking of Cars ** Freight Car Construction: Under frames – The Bettendorf Company, Bettendorf, Iowa – Steel under frames manufactured by the Bettendorf Company combine the elements of strength, durability and simplicity with the least possible weight. ** Freight Car Construction: Body Bolsters – Freight Car Body Framing – Box Car Ends – End Reinforcements-Chicago-Cleveland Car Roofing Co., Chicago, Ill. – The shifting of such lading as lumber, pipe, brick, bar steel, ingots, machinery or other heavy articles, due to sudden shocks of cars in the yards or in train operation, has made it imperative to strengthen the car ends. ** Ladders-The Wine Railway Appliance Company, Toledo, Ohio – The Wine Railway Appliance Company have made a specialty of building steel ladders for all classes of equipment in accordance with the Safety Appliance Regulations of the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Mechanical Section of the American Railway Association. ** Inside, Outside, and All Steel Metal Roofs – A considerable proportion of freight claims arises from damage caused by leaking car roofs. This company has developed a practical solution to the problem of producing weatherproof roofs. -- Chicago-Cleveland Car Roofing Co., Chicago, Ill. – ** Dry Lading All Steel Roofs – This is the pioneer all steel roof and is known as either a Sectional or a Flexible roof. It first was applied in the year 1907 and since then has been installed on the majority of railroads throughout the country. Hutchins Car Roofing Company, Detroit, Mich. ** Murphy Radial All Steel Flexible Roof – Is designed with the object of providing a heavy gage flexible box car roof of few parts and minimum weight, supported by ridge pole, purlines and carlines. This roof is made of heavy gage galvanized sheets and being exceptionally light in weight will reduce the total weight of the car. -- Standard Railway Equipment Company, New Kensington, PA. ** Box Car Doors and Fixtures – The design of doors and fixtures for freight cars has been the subject of consideration by a committee of the American Railway Association for many years. The standards and Recommended Practices adopted as a result of the work of this committee are as follows: **` Camel Top and Bottom Supported Doors – Freight car doors are required to be spark, weather and burglar-proof, easily opened and closed, and strongly constructed to withstand rough handling
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