Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1913 — Chilled Iron Car Wheels the Best. [ARTICLE]

Chilled Iron Car Wheels the Best.

In a paper read at the meeting of the New England Railroad club, Mr. A. A. Hale showed that, in the development of the freight car from 20,000 to 100,000 pounds capacity, all parts of the car have been increased in weight, but no part has shown such slight increase, as the chilled-iron wheel. Car capacity has increased 400 per cent., the weight of axle 149 per cent., the weight of rail 100 per cent., whereas the weight of the wheel has increased only 38 per cent. In the opinion of the author, chilled-iron is the only metal of which wheels are manufactured which will stand up under extremely heavy loads without crushing or flowing.—Scieniflc American.