Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1916 — CAN WEIGH ENORMOUS LOAD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CAN WEIGH ENORMOUS LOAD

Track Scale. Recently Installed Would Seem About the Limit of Mechanical Skill. At West Albany, N. Y., one of the eastern railroad companies has installed a track scale which is theoretically capable of accommodating a 1,-650,000-pound load. It is 100 feet in

length and is an assemblage of six weighing instruments, each designed to have a capacity of 275,000 pounds. The load applied to each section is transmitted to an additional lever and through it to a weighing beam housed at one side. The scale is one of the largest of its kind ever built and is employed in weighing locomotives and other rolling stock. Engines of the Pacific type weigh about 215 tons, but it would take four of these piled on top of each other to overload the scale. The reason for designing the mechanism for such a great capacity was partly to insure its permanent adequacy. Tests have been made which show that the variation between the different sections is less fhan ten pounds.---Popular Mechanics Magazine.

Enormous Railroad Scale for Weighing Locomotives and Other Rolling Stock.