Kirkman, Marshall M. (Marshall Monroe), 1842-1921 · New York and Chicago, The World railway publishing company · leaf 80
The Skeleton Steel Insert Shoe, Fig. 3, is recom-mended for general locomotive service. It is not sosevere a tire dresser as the all-steel shoe, but is more generallyused. It consists of a body o{cast iron having inserts of a special crucible steel disposed alongthe face of the shoe where it… … 72 LOCOMOTIVE APPLIANCES. which are exposed by the grinding away of the castiron between them, and act like milling tool cutters indressing down the tire. The skeleton design removesmuch of the shoe metal from against the throat of thewheel flange and over the line of rail wear; the broadsurfaces…
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