. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . sagggy One Side Removed and One End Inclined. a gondola, it will carry 14,000 feet of lum-ber or 14 tons of coal. The dump is operated from the side, andhandles very easily, as the 2-inch chain shaftis protected by a box formed of two angleirons, so that there is no pressure on Ready for Ore Servicic. & A,, have designed and built some con-vertible cars for ore-carrying that seem tobe a desirable improvement. This roadhas a very large iron ore business in thesummer months ; in the winter, ore carsli
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . sagggy One Side Removed and One End Inclined. a gondola, it will carry 14,000 feet of lum-ber or 14 tons of coal. The dump is operated from the side, andhandles very easily, as the 2-inch chain shaftis protected by a box formed of two angleirons, so that there is no pressure on Ready for Ore Servicic. & A,, have designed and built some con-vertible cars for ore-carrying that seem tobe a desirable improvement. This roadhas a very large iron ore business in thesummer months ; in the winter, ore carslie idle. In order to get a car that couldbe used for hauling coal, lumber logs orother freight, as well as ore, the designhere shown was perfected. The car is easily changed from ore dumpto gondola by means of the long wrenchshown in the hands of the is done at very little expense. Theroad has had twenty-five of these cars inservice for the past year or more, and theyare pronounced a success by everybodyhandling them. The designers have re-cently taken out a patent on the device. 108 tee of the Railway Master Mechanics Asso-ciation, calling for information on the uti-lization of railroad scrap material. Thehard times have required so many men touse up the scrap heap, that there must be agreat deal of information on the subjectquite fresh and up
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