[U.S. Government Steel Underframe Flat Car]
(CAPACITY 60,000 POUNDS)
Gauge 3 feet, 0 inches. Couplers Automatic.
Center Sills, Steel Channel, reinforced with "Fishbelly" Web and Angle Truss, forming a girder with two web members, the continuous Channel Draft Sill acting as top flange of girder. Side Sills Steel Channels carried at Bolsters and on Cross bearers.
The Bolsters and Cross Bearers are similar in construction, being built in between the Sills and formed of plate webs and auger flanges and top and bottom cover plates. End Sill is a Steel Channel. The Draft Beam is a Steel Plate riveted to Center Sill and with Center Sill bottom flange angle extending through Bolster and continuing along bottom edge of Draft Beam.
The Draft Rig is the Singer Spring type with Malleable Iron Draft Castings riveted to Draft Beams.
Castings are of Steel and Malleable Iron. Stake Pockets are Pressed Steel.
The Deck is of Fir Plank. Brake Equipment is for Hand only with Brakes applied to all wheels.
The Trucks are a standard 60,000 pounds capacity truck, for 3 feet gauge with 24 inch wheels of Chilled Cast Iron, Steel Axles, Malleable Iron Journal Boxes, Standard Brass, Structural Steel Bolster, Metal Brake Beams, supported from Malleable Iron Columns. This car was furnished the U. S. Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
[U. S. Government Wood Frame Flat Car]
(CAPACITY 40,000 POUNDS)
Gauge 4 feet, 8½ inches. Length 30 feet, 0 inches. Width 8 feet, 6 inches.