. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . conven-tions, all of which have gone down inhistory as important advances in theair brake art. Feliniary, 1905. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING T) A South African Goods Wagon. The steel car which wc here illus-trate is not called a gondola on theCentral South African Railways whereit is used. In the Dark Continent itis known as a goods wagon, and atthe time it was photographed it had onits side sill the initials of the ImperialMilitary Railways. The wagon wasbuilt by the Lancaster Railway
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . conven-tions, all of which have gone down inhistory as important advances in theair brake art. Feliniary, 1905. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING T) A South African Goods Wagon. The steel car which wc here illus-trate is not called a gondola on theCentral South African Railways whereit is used. In the Dark Continent itis known as a goods wagon, and atthe time it was photographed it had onits side sill the initials of the ImperialMilitary Railways. The wagon wasbuilt by the Lancaster Railway Car-riage & Wagon Company, Ltd., of Lan-caster, Eng., and llic data concerning shorter than the car sides, so thatwhen the doors open they will hangclear of the roadway. A loose woodenfiller on top makes up the shortage ofthe door on each side. A pair of springsextending down from the side sillstake up the shock when the doors slamopen and hold them away from thetruss rods, turn buckles, etc. The ends of the car indicate theshape of the load when it has beencarefully placed covered with canvas. STEEL GOODS ON THE CENTRAL SOUTH .\1K1CAN RAILWAY. it was kindly furnished to us by A. Hyde, Chief Locomotive Su-perintendent of the railway, whose head-quarters are in Pretoria. The steel goods wagon weighs light30,268 lbs. and it is expected to carrya load of about 70,000 lbs., which willgive a gross load of over 100,000 length of the body inside is 37 ^ in.; width, 7 ft. 9 ins.; depth atsides, 3 ft. 8 ins. The wheels are 33V2ins. in diameter, steel tired. The journalsare 9x4/2 ins. From truck center totruck center is 24 ft. The car is built of structural steelshapes and is an example of very neatand compact design. There are onlytwo truss rods used and they are riv-eted to the side sills in the third panelfrom the ends, and the requisite ten-sion is got by two turn-buckles on eachplaced near the center of the car. Thequeen posts are three to each truss rod
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