| Show STEEL CARS Another lerk or Prone to UoU runt Irtstpmol At last steel cam have hewn l made For ears they have bn regarded II the coming car but owing to the high price of steel they were not thought to bo economically ponlbte until the twentieth century A great steel company com-pany In order to show under the present pres-ent conditions the poMlbllltles of steel In this direction has constructed two cart ot lliln material which arc the first of their kind As the picture shows they are of tlniplp construction being built up ot plate girders They are I to bo exhibited I around the country to railroad men and If the Idea takes they will be constructed on n large scato In the fall While tho cost of a steel car will naturally bo more than that ot a wooden one sufficient experience has already been acquired to warrant the statement that on a commercial bails these cars can bo co nail Ited at n cot not to cxcc d 1 that per ton of carrying capacity ot wooden cars and with n safety factor In favor of steel They 11 EN I CAn OF THE FtTLIlE i me been tested with n laid of wet and and pig Iron weighing one hun d red llIn1 twentylive thousand pounds The use of sire will not be confined to freight cars lob Is I Intended the near failure to build passenger cars of steel throughout and thus do away will I the danger of pllntcrlng In rallroai ollbilons |
