Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 684
eparate frame,connected by wooden beams, between which, and in the centre of the truck, the bolster is suspended.The bolster, which is also of wood, carries the centre-plate and two side bearings. The stock car differs from the box car in its body or box being formed so as to admit air and lightto… … going, excepting that instead of the box it has low removable side boards and no roof. If it hasno side boards, it is called a platform car. 654 RAILROAD CARS. FiS. 3632 and 3633 are a side elevation and end view (half in section) of a standard four-wheeledcoal°car of the New York Central and…
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