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.
Illinois Central lightweight, alloy-steel rail cars
Ry Age
Railway Age ; 109 , n 22
1940
7 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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