. Bell telephone magazine . Fig. 1. Across the Great PlainsThe cable-laying plow train, as shown here, consists of: a 100-horsepower Diesel-enginecaterpillar tractor; an empty traction-loading cable reel trailer, used in changing cable reels;two more tractors; a rooter plow; a fourth tractor; the cable-laying plow; and, finally, tworeels of cable on winch-loading trailers. The entire train is connected into one unit with amotive force of ^00 horsepower and a weight of 100 tons long line of horses in the fourgreat caterpillar tractors, whose deep-throated exhausts bespeak a powerundreamed of a
. Bell telephone magazine . Fig. 1. Across the Great PlainsThe cable-laying plow train, as shown here, consists of: a 100-horsepower Diesel-enginecaterpillar tractor; an empty traction-loading cable reel trailer, used in changing cable reels;two more tractors; a rooter plow; a fourth tractor; the cable-laying plow; and, finally, tworeels of cable on winch-loading trailers. The entire train is connected into one unit with amotive force of ^00 horsepower and a weight of 100 tons long line of horses in the fourgreat caterpillar tractors, whose deep-throated exhausts bespeak a powerundreamed of a hundred years ago! Similar trains are burying telephonecable in other parts of the fact, to meet the demands for addi-tional toll facilities arising from thenations emergency program, the BellSystem found it necessary to secureequipment for and to train crews tohandle ten complete plow trains. The use of plows for burying cableand wires is not new. In fact, thefirst Bell System plow was built inOklahoma some 12 y
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