Arizona republican., 1902-09-09

sites in towns in eastern Ohio which are being considered.
 The cars which will be manufactured
 by the company are of an entirely new
 design and will represent the latest ad-
 vance that has been made in car build ing. The principal feature of the new ear will be it's greatly increased car rying capacity as compared with the steel cars BOW in use on the railroads.
 There VIII be two styles of cars for carrying coal and iron ore. The largest oi these will be thirty-one feet long and will have q capacity of 19O,OO0 pounds of coal The smaller car will be twenty
 feet long and will have a capacity of 100000 pounds. With these figures 1t will be seen that the largest car will
 have d carrying capacity of 90,0OO pounds more than the largest steel car which is now built by the other companies.
 The new cars are protected by four teen patents, which cover all the prin- cipal features of the construction. in- cluding the shape of the car, the trucks.
 and the bolsters. The shape of the car,
 which is a decided departure from
 that used by the manufactur of
 
 of the invention.
 The car is so built that the strain of
 the load does not come on the sides but
 rests on a steel frame.
 Every cubic inch of the space can be
 utilized. Instead of the waste space at each end and under the body of the car, as exists in the types in use at present, the new car will be built so
 that all this space can be us d for loading. The main body of the weight
 will be carried in the part of the car between the two trucks. The inside of
 the car is so arranged that there is not square inch of horizontal surface. The cars will have hopper bottoms and
 this detail of the construction will in- sure the draining of all the coal or ore
 that may be in the car when the hop pers are opened.
 No pressed steel shapes will be used
 in the construction of the cars, they being made of sheet, structural and cast steel. The trucks will be of a new design, the frame of the trucks and the bclsters being of cast steel and heavy enough to carry the big load which can be put in the cars. An important fea- ture is the fact that the cars can be repaired at any boiler shop or at the regular repair shops of the company as they will not need any specially de- signed machinery to repair any of the damaged parts.
 Another advantage which the new car will have will be in the weight. The nnety-hve ton car will weigh about 36 eco pounds or 4,CG0 pounds less than the present steel car with a carrying capacity of 100000 pounds. The smaller car. which has a capacity of 100000 pounds will weight 10.00O pounds less
 than the present type ot steel cars. string of loaded cars of the present type on a track a mile long will carry bout S.250 tons of coal The same number of new cars would carry 13,2O0 tons, an increase of nearly 65 per cent. The construction of the car, which per Inits the carrying of the principal weight between the trucks, brings the center of gravity down to the lowest point, and makes it easier to operate tine cars over the railroads, rendering accidents less liable. The coke cars which the company will build will be thiTty-one feet long, and will have a proportiCnate increase in carrying ca pacity The company also will supply trucks to the trade. and will have i.s own car wheel foundry.
 The works will cover an area of tt least twenty three acres. and it is the intention to make them the most com Ilcte cf the kind in the country. Tho main building will he 1.4OO feet Ions and 400 feet wide. In addition to this there will be the car wheel foundry and
 the truck works. Inside the works there will be fifteen miles of track.
 The plant will be run entirely by elec-
 tticity and compressed air. There will rot be an overhead pulley in the en- tire works. Contracts have already
 bocn let for the construction of a large
 travelling electric crane, which will
 have a capacity equal to the largest now in use in the country.
 The plant viii have a capacity of
 fifty completed cars day. Orders for
 ] 1.oO0 cars have already been received From orc ot the eastern railroads and
 more will be booked as soon as the