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Identifier: electricrailway431914newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ks, and the bearingsurfaces of the steel center plate castingsare burnished to avoid cutting. For rea-sons of truck design, the Stucki roller sidebearings are of inverted form, the rackbeing installed on the truck and the plateon the car body. These bearings are ofself-centering type, namely, as one side ofthe roller is heavier than the other the forceof gravity rights the bearing as the cardeparts from curves. END FRAMING The end sheets are of %-in. Grade Bsteel specially formed with openings forwindows with flanges to take sash pressedinto same and riveted to pressed posts atend doors and corners. The corner postsare built up of pressings; the outside postof %-in. Grade B steel and the inside of%-in. Grade C steel. The door posts areGrade C steel 3/16 in. thickness, and theinside door post on door pocket side are ofpressed section %-in. Grade B steel. Cast-steel connection castings are employed be-tween the end door posts and buffer sills toresist telescoping, and reinforcements are
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Vertical and Horizontal Sections Through Side / 1332 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL (Vol. XLIII, No. 24. also provided on the end sheets. The hood framing isbuilt up of standerd structural steel shapes and plates. ROOF The form of the roof is a compromise between thesingle arch and the monitor type, owing to the type ofPerry ingot-iron ventilators used in the deck and tothe need for maximum clearance in the tunnels. Insidethe car, the effect is that of an Empire ceiling. Thedeck plate is of 1/16-in. ingot iron. The carlins are3/32-in. Grade B steel pressed in one piece, flanged andattached to the body plate with pressed steel brackets.The upper deck roof sheets are of 1/16-in. ingot ironand extend in one piece across the entire width of theupper deck. Splices are made at carlins by lappingsheets, riveting to carlins and welding joints. Thesesheets are riveted longitudinally to the deck plate. Thelower deck roof sheets are of 1/16-in. ingot iron fast-ened to the carlins and spliced in the sa

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