Identifier: americanengineer77newy (find matches)
Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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raised to the top of the cascade by a pumpingstation located under festival hall. The pumping machinerywill consist of three 36-in. single-stage turbine centrifugalpumps, purchased from Henry R. Worthington, of New YorkCity, each driven by a 2,000-h.p. Westinghouse alternating cur-rent motor. The total horse-power utilized will thus be 6,000,making this the largest electric pumping station in the world.iiie pumps and other pieces of machinery for this plant arenow being installed at St. Louis. NovEM«EB, 1903. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 407 Mr. Herbert P. Moore, mechanical engineer, has resigned as in-structor in machine de.sign at Cornell University to accept a posi-tion as mechanical engineer at Kiehle I.ros. Testing Machine Com-pany, 1424 North Ninth street, Philadelphia. NEW STEEL CARS ON THE BURLINGTON. Mr. Stephen P. Sullivan, sale.s agent for the Ewald Iron Com-pany at Chicago, has been appointed general sales agent for thatcompany, with headquarters in that city.
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100,000 LBS. CAPACITY. The first order of steel cars for this system Is now being builtby the Cambria Steel Company for the Chicago, Burlington ftQuincy, and the number Is to be 1,000. The following tablepresents the leading dimensions: Capacity 100,000 Ibg. Length over end Bills 41 (t. 8 las. Length Inside 40 ft. Width over all 10 ft. ^4 Id. Width Inside 9 ft. 6 Ins. Height of box, Inside 4 ft. 3Vi ln». Height over sides 8 ft. >4 Is. Height over staff 8 ft. 6V4 Inn. Distance, truck centers 29 ft. 8 Ins. Wheel base, trucks 5 ft. 2 Ins. Cubical capacity 1,615 sq. ft. These cars have no side sills, the sides beingstiffened, in 3 ft. 10% in. panels, with anglesand surmounted by coping angles. The center-sills are 15 in., 33 lb. channels, which are con-tinuous from end to end and these receive thedraft attachments. With cover-plates, top andbottom, the center sills form a box girder as faras the bolsters. Opposite all the panel pointsin the sides, cross bearers of 8 in. 11% lb. chan-n

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