. American engineer and railroad journal . i-Fn-;---!-^; SIDE ELEVATION 1ftl. tz^n 16 THE AMERICAN ENGINEER [January, 1894 this time they are handled exactly as if the fuel had been takenfrom a car. The work at this station is done with 75 lorries of 1,000 each, and from 10 to 14 men are employed, six ofthem working at night. The cost of loading from the car onto a tender, including the handling of the cars, is about $.072per ton. The expense of operating the motor, its maintenance,together with that of the lorries,is practically the sameas atDijon ; but the interest and depreciat
. American engineer and railroad journal . i-Fn-;---!-^; SIDE ELEVATION 1ftl. tz^n 16 THE AMERICAN ENGINEER [January, 1894 this time they are handled exactly as if the fuel had been takenfrom a car. The work at this station is done with 75 lorries of 1,000 each, and from 10 to 14 men are employed, six ofthem working at night. The cost of loading from the car onto a tender, including the handling of the cars, is about $.072per ton. The expense of operating the motor, its maintenance,together with that of the lorries,is practically the sameas atDijon ; but the interest and depreciation of capital invested inthe plant will be greater, for the construction of the subter-ranean vaults was very expensive in consequence of the diffi-culties which were met with in doing the masonry work. The system which has just been described, and which hasbeen applied at Dijon and Marseilles, insures a very rapid load-ing of the tender ; they show the same saving whenever thefuel is loaded directly from the cars upon the tender, but whenit is necessary to take it from p
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