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Identifier: proceedingsofann541953amer (find matches)
Title: Proceedings of the annual convention
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: American Railway Engineering Association
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: Chicago, American Railway Engineering Association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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; 2. kitchen, wash room and toilet; 3. dining and sleeping; 4. loungeroom; and 5. recording room (see Fig. 4). All measuring instruments, 126 in all, are located in the template room (Figs. 2and 3), and are divided into four groups. a. Oval template, called Horse Shoe, which is adjustable in height from 17 ft to21 ft above top of rail. This has a straight portion on each side beginning at8 ft above top of rail and extending upward, perpendicular to plane of rail,to a point 9 ft above the rail when the template is in normal or down position,at which point it curves over the car on a S-ft radius. b. Main Template remains in a fixed position on both sides of the car betweenheights of 2 ft and 11 ft 6 in above top of rail. c. Right Foot and d. Left Foot Templates, each of which extends downwardfrom a height of 2 ft 6 in above top of rail, are adjustable, and when not inuse can be raised by means of a hydraulic lift to prevent striking objects alongthe track when in transit. 840 Clearances
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Fig. 2—Template room in Pennsylvania car where measuringequipment is operated. The measuring and recording instruments consist of three main parts: 1. Feelers, which are 36 in long, attached to outside of car and made of yi-maluminum tubing with tool steel hardened tip. 2. Teleflex Cable, which passes from the outside sear box to gear box onindicator quadrant. 3. Indicator Quadrant, which is attached to inside gear box, has on outer cir-cumference of quadrant a scale graduated to the l^i in from 0 to 36 to indicateexactly the clearance measurement for the position taken by feeler. Located directly over the center line of the rear truck is a rear template which isused to measure overhead structures more than 21 ft above top of rail, and which cannot Clearances 841

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