. Railroad digest . fastening means carried by the tie and soconstructed as to provide for firmly hold-ing the rails in position, while at thesame time permitting of the ready re-lease of the rails whenever this may benecessary for purposes of adjustment orin laying new rails. A further object of the invention is toprovide an improved form of tie and railfastening devices which adapt the inven-tion for all conditions of rail-laying, thesame being equally as useful for switchand frog work, as well as for single-trackpurposes. 358 RAILROAD DIGEST September, 1901. Locomotive Coaling Plant, Lake S
. Railroad digest . fastening means carried by the tie and soconstructed as to provide for firmly hold-ing the rails in position, while at thesame time permitting of the ready re-lease of the rails whenever this may benecessary for purposes of adjustment orin laying new rails. A further object of the invention is toprovide an improved form of tie and railfastening devices which adapt the inven-tion for all conditions of rail-laying, thesame being equally as useful for switchand frog work, as well as for single-trackpurposes. 358 RAILROAD DIGEST September, 1901. Locomotive Coaling Plant, Lake Shore andMichigan Southern Ry. The type of coaling station here shown is one that has beenequipped by the Link-Belt Machinery Company, of Chicago,an example of which is situated at Butler, Ind. Such stationsare also to be found at some points on the New York Cen-tral Railroad and on the B. & O. Southwestern at Cincinnatiand Washington, Ind. It is especially adapted for localitieswhere locomotives are coaled on two tracks which can be spacedsufficiently far apart to allow of the station being placed be-tween them; the coal supply track being in the center through and beneath the station. From four to sixhundred tons of coal may be carried in the storage pocket, orenough for two or three days supply or longer, according tothe number of engines coaled daily. No provision is made formeasuring or weighing the coal as supplied to the tenders. The coal is received on the supply track, either in gondolaside-dump or bottom-dump cars, is delivered
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