. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ts on a skeleton truck. This truck isfree to run on rails laid on a 4-inch in-cline, permitting a movement to the rightof 15 feet, or up to the track provided forroad cars for removing cinders. Whenthe ash-pan of the locomotive is dumpedinto the bucket, the truck is then moved tothe right, up to the car waiting to receivethe load, and by means of air hoists the difRcultics experienced by the engineersand workmen of the road rn their effortsto build the extension from Baton Rougeto New Roads, some twenty-
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ts on a skeleton truck. This truck isfree to run on rails laid on a 4-inch in-cline, permitting a movement to the rightof 15 feet, or up to the track provided forroad cars for removing cinders. Whenthe ash-pan of the locomotive is dumpedinto the bucket, the truck is then moved tothe right, up to the car waiting to receivethe load, and by means of air hoists the difRcultics experienced by the engineersand workmen of the road rn their effortsto build the extension from Baton Rougeto New Roads, some twenty-five or thirtymiles distant. I was called up there to negotiate withseveral planters who would not allow ourworkmen to cross their ground. saidMajor Strong. They simply sat out inthe fields with shotguns on their kneesand dared our workmen to approach. Theresult was that three or four men sus-pended the entire work of road construc-tion. I went up there, negotiated withthe old fellows, and finally succeeded insatisfying them that the company pro-posed to pay the costs of the crop which. CINDER PIT. bucket is raised and dumped on to thecar. The air hoists are arranged to havea vertical and horizontal lift which facili-tates rapid handling. This plan has beenin use some time, with very satisfactoryresults, providing a rapid and economicalmethod of disposing of the cinders. The plan was designed by Mr. JohnEllis, superintendent of motive power ofthe Chicago, St. Paul. Minneapolis &Omaha Railwav. A District That Does Not WantRailroads. Some of the people in Pointe Coupeeparish are not so much in love with rail-roads as they might be. Major RobertStrong, general agent of the Texas & Pa-cific, returned recently from that gives some interesting accounts of was being destroyed. This was the onlycontention, that the Texas & Pacific wouldnot pay for the crops injured by the road-way crossing his lands. He was willingto donate the land to the road—the rightof way. It was rath
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