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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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ee months exposure tosmoke and gases the paper and the first adhesive coat wereintact, and in places where the paper was removed for exam-ination the adhesive coat was not yet dry, and the surfaceof the steel was the same as when first painted. Steam Turbines in Marine Service. Mr. William Gray, ini before the Institution of Naval Architects (England),records Interesting results of trials of the Midland Railwayturbine steal ompared with exactly similar ships .li iv. n by reciprocating engines. For a speed of 19.6 knotsthe turbine at of coal, and at other trials ■ nt. of coal with reciprocating engines at a sp Ing generally, therefore.i the turbineman. nave been • of the ste: fitted with n bat the only real Inl in the difficulty of manoeuvring in narrow channels. ■ I Ollie turblm werful. Hi In the be about 6 per cent in favor of the turbines, and the - of the turbir ed itii tie of thetotal cost of hull and machlni 324 AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 75-TON STEEL FLAT CAR.
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P1TTSBUBUII & LAKE ERIE RAILBOAD. The Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroadhas recently built at its McKees Hocksshops two 150,000-lb. capacity flat cars,which were especially designed forcarrying heavy and large irregular-shaped castings. The makers andusers of large castings in the Pitts-burgh district were asked to furnishdimensions and weights of their larg-est castings, and an examinationshowed that the car might have tocarry the greater part of the load dis-tributed over a comparatively smallspace near its center, and that be-cause of the size of some of the cast-ings and the clearances to be observedthe distance from the top of the railto the top of the floor would have tobe about 42 ins. While the car is nom-inally of 150,000 lbs. capacity, it isdesigned to carry this weight distrib-uted over a distance of four feet at itscenter, and will, of course, carry safelya much greater load if distributed overa greater area. Several radical de-partures from ordinary steel car de-sign

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