The Car Builder S Dictionary

Definitions and typical illustrations of railroads and industrial cars, their parts and equipment; cars built in America for export to foreign countries; descriptions and illustrations of shops and equipment employed in the construction and repair of cars.

Excerpt from The Car Builder's Dictionary: An Illustrated Vocabulary of Terms Which Designate American Railroad Cars, Their Parts, Attachments, and Details of Construction As a rule, plans. Elevations and sectional drawings are placed side by side, or directly above and below one another, as if in projection. The numbers Of illustrations in the three editions Of the Car Builder's Dictionary issued in 1879. 1884 and.1895 are respectively 811, 2188, 5683. The general arrangement of engravings adopted in the last edition has been retained, the engravings being classified and arranged alphabetically under the following subjects: Cars, Car-bodies, Car-body details, Car-furnishings, Trucks, Thick-details, Master Car Builder's Standards and Recommended Practice, Hand cars, Street-cars. Considerable new matter has been introduced under the subject of details Of separate parts Of car-bodies with their forms and dimensions. This includes the details Of parts of a box-car, a fiat-car. A gondola-car, a four-wheel caboose-car, a baggage-car, and details of several freight and passenger car-trucks. Vestibules have come into use since the issue of the last edition and are therefore a new subject in the Car Builder's Dictionary. The leading types of vestibules in use are shown in general view and by detailed drawings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.