OF VIRGINIA 



TABLE 5. PLAN ING- MILL PRODUCT. 



CARS AND LOCOMOTIVES 



The building and repair of cars in Virgnia is a most important 

 enterprise. The quantity and cost of the lumber required made it the 

 third largest of industries. Besides freight cars of all kinds, passen- 

 ger and baggage cars, cabooses, and contractors, and mining dump 

 cars, Virginia manufacturers use part of the material listed in Table 

 6 for constructing locomotive cabs and for other parts of locomotives 

 where wood is essential. Lumber is used by railroads for grade 

 crossings, bridges, depot platforms, trestles, cattle guards, and many 

 other purposes, but this wood was not included in this table nor in 

 this report. It serves for these uses as rough lumber without any 

 necessary change in its form other than trimming and fitting by hand. 



Longleaf pine, loblolly, and shortleaf, together furnished more 

 than four-fifths of the total requirements of the car makers. Longleaf, 

 according to amount used, was the most important wood. In many 

 caises its uses for framing were similar to those of oak. It went into 

 sills, body bolsters, and side plates. Besides this, it was used for ridge 

 poles, car lining, belt rails, and body posts, and with loblolly and short - 

 leaf pine, for siding, flooring or decking, roof boards, and linings. 



The strength of white oak and red oak makes these woods almost 

 indispensable for car building, white oak being the more favored and 

 used to a greater extent than red. Both of them went in the frame 

 work of passenger and freight cars. The principal uses were for draft 

 timbers, engine beams, tie beams, platforms, truck bolsters, and parts 



