Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1915 — HEAVIEST CAB IS THE DINER [ARTICLE]

HEAVIEST CAB IS THE DINER

Weighs Many bounds More Than the Rest That Go to Make Up “Limited."

In most cases the heaviest of the cars comprising a '‘limited” train la the diner, which exceeds the other cars in weight by about 10,000 or 16,000 pounds. Such a car, with full equipment, usually weighs something like 140,000 pounds when ready to make its customary division run. ' A 16-section sleeper may weigh from 110,000 pounds to 126,000 pounds, while the buffet library car of the transcontinental type comes next at 107,000 pounds. The baggage car, weighing 85,000 pounds, may/be the lightest In the train, but the postal car next to it weighs, on an average, 103,000 pounds. A chair car is full weight at 87,000 pounds, while the ordinary passenger coach tips the scales at 93,000 pounds. With a locomotive and tender weighing, say, 260,000 pounds, it is easy to estimate the enormous weight of some of the modern through trains of seven cars. —Popular Mechanics.