. Electric railway journal . tIs Done with It BY CLIFFORD A. ELLIOTT Cost Engineer Pacific Electric Railway, L,os Angeles, Cal. The first electric crane purchased by the Pacific Elec-tric Railway was placed in service in January, 1913. Itwas a 60-ton wrecking crane built by the IndustrialWorks of Bay City, Mich., and it has given valuableservice in rerailing box cars and freight motors in sev-eral minor freight train wrecks. This crane has alsoserved advantageously and economically in setting steelbridge girders, placing riprap rock at bridge approachesand along banks of streams for flood cont
. Electric railway journal . tIs Done with It BY CLIFFORD A. ELLIOTT Cost Engineer Pacific Electric Railway, L,os Angeles, Cal. The first electric crane purchased by the Pacific Elec-tric Railway was placed in service in January, 1913. Itwas a 60-ton wrecking crane built by the IndustrialWorks of Bay City, Mich., and it has given valuableservice in rerailing box cars and freight motors in sev-eral minor freight train wrecks. This crane has alsoserved advantageously and economically in setting steelbridge girders, placing riprap rock at bridge approachesand along banks of streams for flood control, and set-ting railroad crossings and other heavy special-worklayouts in place, as well as in the material store yardsin loading and unloading rail and various classes ofheavy material. The boom can be operated through acomplete circle, whereby bad-order carloads of railreceived at the yards are often transferred with dis-patch by swinging the rail from the bad-order carto another car placed immediately in the rear of the. SHOP-BUILT CRANE USED BY MAINTENANCE-OF-WAYDEPARTMENT crane on the same track. Sorting of a car of miscel-laneous track material has also been accomplished bythe same method. Recently the company erected withits own forces one of three proposed divisional car-houses and store track layouts. The timber trusses,bays and framework were erected in form on theground and then placed in final position with the crane,this economical manner of handling the work effectinga great saving. In consequence of the successful operations of thisfirst crane equipment, it was deemed expedient duringthe year 1915 to place in service a lighter capacitycrane for doing rapid work in the various municipali-ties on the Pacific Electric Lines where traffic conges-tion, restrictive ordinances and undesirable conditionsmade it impractical to operate the larger crane. Anobsolete 60-ton Vulcan steam shovel, with its swinginggear and hoist but without its steam propelling equip-ment, was
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