CUSHION UNDERFRAME DEVICES

This pocket-size manual is intended to serve as a means of familiarizing its readers with six of the end-of-car and sliding-sill type hydraulic cushioning units. For each such device there is nomenclature, functioning and maintenance recommendations. In the 160 pages are many drawings and illustrations which serve to explain the accompanying text.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This manual was prepared by the Railway Educational Bureau and announced in Railway Locomotives and Cars, V146, N8, September 1972.
• Corporate Authors:

  Railway Educational Bureau

  1809 Capitol Avenue
  Omaha, NE  United States  68102
• Publication Date: 1972

Media Info

• Pagination: 160 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cushioning materials; Vehicle maintenance
• Old TRIS Terms: Cushion underframe devices; Cushioning
• Subject Areas: Maintenance and Preservation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00041297
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Railway Locomotives and Cars
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 27 1973 12:00AM