Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 167, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1916 — Steel Cars on Railroad in India. [ARTICLE]

Steel Cars on Railroad in India.

The Great Indian Peninsular railroad recently successfully experimented with one steel passenger coach, and has now constructed an entire train of that material. This train runs as the Bombay-Delhi Express, carrying intermediate and third-class passengers. Each carriage is 68 feet long and the body, including the roof, is of steel plate riveted and welded to steel supporting members, so that the whole of the body and the underframe, on which the former is built as one piece, are of steel. Inside the car proper the fittings and furniture in touch with passengers are of wood, as are the window: frames, Venetians, etc., while the actual lining is of asbestos heat-resisting composition, held up with wooden moldings secured to the steel members. An interesting point is that one carriage has all its internal woodwork made of Japanese ash as an experiment.