Identifier: locomotiveengine09hill (find matches)
Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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its arrival at St. Paul on themorning of September 24th. This is oneof the Pennock cars exhibited at Sara-toga, and of which quite a number are inuse in the coal and iron trades. This flatcar was taken over the Northwestern road Conducted by ORVILLE H. RBYNOLDS, M. E. tile Pennock plan, in which the bodyconsists of inverted trough-shaped sec-tions of rolled steel, illustrated and de-scribed in our January number. Thiscompany are proving in a better way thanthat usually employed by people introduc-ing new things, that their theories aboutcar construction are right. They have al-ready put into service a large number tisement out of the first lot of their inter-locking rubber tiling, that was laid in theBroad Street Station of the Philadelphiaroad, at Philadelphia. After wearing two-and-a-half years, with an average of 50,000people passing over it daily, it shows aclean wear of 1-16 inch, and this onlywhere nine-tenths of the travel takes place,in the passageways. In all this time it is
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AN EIGHTY-THOU.SAND-1OUND CAPACITY CAR WITH LOAD. from Chicago to St. Paul, a distance of409 miles, in 27^4 hours, on one of theirfast freight trains. The load weighs 80,-120 pounds. That such an immense loadcan be taken over one of the regular linesin such time, defeats a good deal of argu-ment that 80,000-pound cars cannot behandled in regular service. The Universal Construction Company—who built this car—have been experiment-ing for some time with flat cars built on of gondola cars which are daily carryingfrom 68,000 to 75,000 pounds each, andare now putting into service flat cars car-rying from 78.000 to 89.000 pounds. Suchevidence as this will go a great deal fur-ther toward the introduction of heavy-capacity steel cars than a world of argu-ment. i ^ S The New York Belting & PackingCompany are making a very good adver- claimed that not a cent has been paid outfor repairs on this tiling. i i i Inquiry into the general status of hot-box on roads operating in widely diverses

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