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Railway master mechanic (1878)

New York [etc.] Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co. [etc.] · leaf 267

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n swing motion and rigid trucks] but think tru,-k hut to an imperfect side bearing on truck and car. Iill. not see how some trucks curve at all mth the sidebearing they have. Only a few days ago I saw a smallwruughl strip of ii%n ona wooden bolster, the side bearingson both sides of ear bearing… … run only a few feet. In these cases it was impossible to putthe car on the track with frogs, until the car was raisedand strips well oiled put between side bearings in order tolet the trucks go over the frogs to get on the rail.I think that many times we have cars off the track in the■ards when no…

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