Identifier: americanengineer69newy (find matches)
Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ned.Whether new cars are being built or not, the various parts or gained to a depth of 2 in. to allow for the passage of thesebraces and posts. There are five of these checks in the lengthof each rail, three of which stand at an angle. To do this onB machine where only one can be done at a time requires con-siderable time, to say nothing of that required either for thelaying out of the work or the setting of the machine anil tin-repeated handling of tin- parts. With the machine that, isused (or the 1111rpo.se no laying out is required, and, after themachine- has once been set, everything that comes from it isin exact duplicate and interchangeable. This is evidenced bythe ease ami rapidity with which the new work can be puttogether, and the closeness ol the joints in the finished framing.The same system is employed ill other parts of the cars, sui has the body bolsters, the cross lie timbers, etc. > 30 o ©© oo COCO o >■v>o H - o >ZO 30 >I- SE>-<
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^Cl. OS 464 THE AMERICAN ENGINEER (October, 1895. The material that is used on these cars is Georgia pine forthe longitudinal sills and Michigan oak for the end sills andframing ; the remainder of the oar is for the most part made ofCanadian white pine, while all of the iron used is from therolling mill of the company. The castings are made in thefoundry at Montreal, and the winds cast at Hamilton. It isin every sense of the word a homemade car. The only thingsthat come from abroad is the wood that is grown in Michiganand Georgia. It will be noticed that the coupler shown in the drawing isof the link-and-pin type. This is still in use upon the road,but they have under consideration the adoption of one of theMaster Car-Builder type, but have as yet come to no decisionin the matter as to which one will be chosen. It is probable,however, that when one is adopted arrangements will be madefor the erection of suilable foundries and facilities for manu-facturing the same. With the ordinary b

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