. American engineer and railroad journal . rrangement which makes it certain thatunlatching will take place before thepower is applied to lift the car latching device is a simple one, andwill spring back and hold the car bodylevel as soon as the latter is thrown backinto place. Of course the simplest form is thatin which the car dumps on one sideonly ; but there Is very little additionalcomplication where it is made to dumpon both sides. It can also be readilyapplied to coal cars dumping in the cen-ter. There is no doubt that it saves time and labor, and someexperiences already had se
. American engineer and railroad journal . rrangement which makes it certain thatunlatching will take place before thepower is applied to lift the car latching device is a simple one, andwill spring back and hold the car bodylevel as soon as the latter is thrown backinto place. Of course the simplest form is thatin which the car dumps on one sideonly ; but there Is very little additionalcomplication where it is made to dumpon both sides. It can also be readilyapplied to coal cars dumping in the cen-ter. There is no doubt that it saves time and labor, and someexperiences already had seem to show that it will stand therough usage to which dump cars are often exposed. These cars are made by the Thacher Car & ConstructionCompany, of New York. A number have been in use on anarrow-gauge line in Colorado for some time ; and the Cana-dian Pacific Company has 50 of large size in use, and at presentemployed in filling a high trestle near Vancouver, where theyare said to work very much to the satisfaction of those in THE THACHER PNEUMATIC DUMPING-CAR. Lake Ship-building. The Detroit Dry Dock Company has just closed a contractwith Detroit parties for a straightback steel steamer 362 , 42 ft. beam and 24 ft. deep, to be an almost exact dupli-cate or sister ship to the steamer Selwyn Eddy, now nearingcompletion at Wyandotte. The only difference between theEddy and the new contract is that there will be no boilers will be on the main deck instead of in the hold andsheer to bulwarks on the side. Lake ship-builders now have contracts to build during thecoming winter, for delivery at about the opening of navigation,49 vessels, valued at .$6,909,500. These totals, together withthe valuable detail regarding the new tonnage which is con-tained in the accompanying table, were secured through cor-respondence with every ship builder on the chain of lakes, andthe comparison with fall contracts in previous years is made inaccordance with a similar inquir
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