Railway Car Construction: A Work Describing in Detail and Illustrating with Scale-drawings the Different Varieties of American Cars as Now Built |
Common terms and phrases
14 inches 4-inch bolts air brakes applied arch-bars arrangement attached bar iron bearing boards braces brackets brake beam buffer builders carlines cast cast-iron connection construction corner coupler cross-ties deck diameter dimensions distance door draw-bar edge end sills fastened feet flanges flat floor timbers freight cars gondola cars hangers holes hook inch bolts inches thick inches wide intermediate joints journal Journal bearings JOURNAL BOX lag screws latter length lever load located lower manner MASTER CAR-BUILDERS mortise mortise and tenon nails nuts ordinary pair panels passenger cars pieces pine pipe placed platform posts proper purpose rabbeted rails roof secured shaft shaped sheathing shoes shown in Fig side frames side sills sleeping cars space spring plank standard steel strain strap strips swing beam tenons tie rods tion transoms truck truss truss-rods upper usually width window wood worn wrought iron yellow pine