American engineer (1912) (14573959608)

Identifier: americanengineer87newy (find matches)
Title: American engineer
Year: 1912 (1910s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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April, 1913. AMERICAN ENGINEER. 209 top cover plate and a _• in. buttuni cover i)latc. The cro.ssbearers are 5/16 in. pressed steel plate in channel section witha -Ji in. x 8 in. top cover plate. These have a pressed steelchannel reinforcement at tlie bottom, formed and applied asshown in tlio illu.stration. These cross bearers do not extendto the bottom of the center sills, but the filler sections betweenthe center sills are arranged to extend the full depth. Thecross ties, of which there are two between each of the crossbearers and the bolsters, are 6 in., 8 lb., channels secured to theside and center sills by -H in. angles. The diagonal braces fromthe end of the side sills to the body bolster are pressed in chan-nel shape from -j-s i. plate. They are S in. in width and 1^in. in depth and are secured to the corner gusset plates at eachend. The wooden siding is bolted to side stakes pressed from )im. steel plate to the form and size shown in the illustrations.At the corners a speci