Unidentified train of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway.

Original description: The train shown in the illustration is made up of steel bogie cars, each with a carrying capacity of 40 to 45 tons (2,240 lbs.). The bodies of these cars are of steel with pressed corrugations to give them stiffness. They are well framed together on standard Ts, etc., the whole mounted on underframes built up of channels 8x3x5-1/16 in., with longitudinals and headstocks 10 x ??? fittings [scan illegible] in India. The cars are fitted with both hand and power brakes. The hand arrangement is of the side lever type known as Little Giant compound lever arrangement. The arrangement is such that a man of ordinary weight standing on the side lever can exert a pressure of 8 tons on the brake blocks of one ???. The power brake is of the continuous automatic vacuum type with the standard brake equipment for the Indian Railways

From "Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock" (1900s) Scan from the Internet Archive of Book Images.