. The street railway review . be driven in ornear the track. As will be seen from one of, the illustrations thedriver comprises two uprights made of heavy umber 654x8 in, x 25ft. high. The base timbers, which .ire fastened to the ear platform,\S in. and -- ft. long. The uprights are held in place by two5x5-111. braces, which engage notches 111 the uprights. These bracescan be disengaged at their lower ends, permitting the two uprightsto swing hack upon the platform of the car. the uprights being up from the steam railroad car and deposited on the ground or in atrolley car on the adjoining trac
. The street railway review . be driven in ornear the track. As will be seen from one of, the illustrations thedriver comprises two uprights made of heavy umber 654x8 in, x 25ft. high. The base timbers, which .ire fastened to the ear platform,\S in. and -- ft. long. The uprights are held in place by two5x5-111. braces, which engage notches 111 the uprights. These bracescan be disengaged at their lower ends, permitting the two uprightsto swing hack upon the platform of the car. the uprights being up from the steam railroad car and deposited on the ground or in atrolley car on the adjoining track. The lifting is done by attach-ing the end of lie hoisting rope t ,1 motoi car and pulling awayfrom the derrick. The distance from the ground to the under sideof the [-beam is __■ ft. 8 in. The width of the derrick at top isjo ft., ami at bottom 20 ft. The two uprights rest 111 a bed ofconcrete i it. square and 5 ft. deep. Kails are handled in 1 lie man-ner shown by means of chain train <ling and two heavy tongs. With. SAND ELEVATOR. hinged to the ba< for this purpose. The hammer weigh about lb., and will drive a pile 20 ft. long. Although the illus-tration does not show it, there is to be mounted upon the rear of thecar platform a small steam-hoisting engine for operating the being used in place of electric motor so that the pile drivercan be used along the track at night when the power is shut down, The flat car on which the pile driver 1 tinted is designed to be pushed or pulled by a motor car. The framing constituting the baseof the pile-driver is pivoted in the center of the ear platform, per-mitting the driver to be swung clear around to the side, allowing itto drive a pile 2 ft. to of the track. The base framing moves upon a circular track made of light T rail when the driver i~being swung around to the iide position. At the companys storage yards there has been rigged up a con-venient derrick for unloading -peeial work rails, and other heavy
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