Two cars for service between Chicago and Champaign, Ill, and between Jackson, Miss, and New Orleans; light weight on center plates 64,589 lb; length oa 75 ft; width oa, side frame, 9 ft 6 in.; height, rail to top of roof 11 ft 8 3/4 in.; each car powered with two 225-hp Waukesha-Hesselman 6-cyl engines having max speed of 73.5 mph; engines burn Diesel fuel but are not Diesel engines.


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    Title :

    Illinois Central lightweight, alloy-steel rail cars


    Additional title:

    Ry Age


    Published in:

    Railway Age ; 109 , n 22


    Publication date :

    1940


    Size :

    7 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English






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