Steam road tests with railway test car 17 for the year 1907-1908 (1908) (14571726710)

Identifier: steamroadtestswi00jaqu (find matches)
Title: Steam road tests with railway test car 17 for the year 1907-1908
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Jaquet, George Emile Munger, Guy Elmer
Subjects: Railroad cars Dynamometer Theses Theses
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Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign



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pearance of the car is indicated by the photo-graph, shown in Fig. 1. The general dimensions and the other datarelating to the construction of the car, are given in Tahle 1,which follows. TABLE I. Dimensions of Dynamometer Car IJo* 17. Car Body. Length over Car Lines —= = = = . 44*-6 l/s Length over Cover Posts 40*-0 Height from Rail to Cupala ^--^ 14-10 Height from Rail to Roof 12»-0 Width of Car Body — 9-l s/s Width over Ohservation Windows ■— 10»-5 5/8 Trucks.Type = 4 ViTheel passenger Distance between wheel centers —6*-6 Distance l^etween trunk centers = 29*-4 Journals 4 l/2 x 8 Diameter ^Theels — 33 The particular departures from standard construction, which adapt the car to dynamometer work, are changes in the underof framing^the car, modification of one of the drav; hars^and theuse of ohservation windows. In order to strengthen the car towithstand the heavy draw-bar pulls to which it is subjected, twosteel channels have been put on under the tvfo center sills. Thesteamroadtestswi00jaqu
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