American engineer and railroad journal (1893) (14571950039)

Identifier: americanengineer67newy (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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erspective view and a side elevairon car equipped with bogie trucks, which hasdesigned and built by the Lancaster KailwayWagon Company, Lancaster, England, for theernmeut railways. The truck framing is of theaccordance with the general character of Engltion, and the sills are of 9-in. channels with 3-inthese sills there are four, the intermediate sills16 in. apart. tion of a newrecently been■ Carriage & Ceylon Gov-plate type, inish construc- flanges. Ofbeing spaced > i^u FOB CEYLON GOVERNMENT RAILWAYS, r Weight of under frame 7,9001b8. ■■ body 2,SSi box 4,200 I)rake worlc 9U0 ** • bearing springs 1,170 bufHug springs 540 axle boxes 850 wheels and axles 6 824 Total weight of car 25^306 The wheels arc 3 ft. 7 in. diameter on the tread, and thetires are 5f in. wide over the flanges, the distance betweenthe inside of the flanges of the wheels being 5 ft. 3 in. The brakes are applied by a hand-wheel, as shown at theside of the car which sets the brakes on the outside of each
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5. O o w <a oo £-1O o D o a< o EdS5 aao O 6o o J O zoo o o Vol. LXVII, Ko. 6.) AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 275 The horizontiil arm G D is connected to tlie signal, either asshown in fig. 5, or in anj other convenient way. To the leverL a bracket b, lig. 9, is bolted, which carries a slotted link, O,similar to the links used for operating locomotive valves.This link is pivotally connected to the bracket at c. The topof the lever has a hand-latch t—also similar to those used onthe reverse-levers of locomotives—which is connected by arod r to a detent d, and to the link G at /. s is a sector•which has two notches c anil e, with which the detent d en-gages, and thus holds the lever in either of its two extremepositions. It is clear that before the lever can be thrown backfrom the position in -which it is shown, or toward the right,that the detent d must be raised so as to be disengaged fromthe notch c in the sector s. To do this the latch t must be pressed against the handle hon th