. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . r ar-rangements have been made where abucket on wheels would run down railson an inclined plane, entering it fromthe side, by going underneath the rail. of shoveling stands at the side of pit onthe same level as bottom of pit, and inorder that he will not have too high athrow for ashes, the ash car track is de-pressed, the rails being about on a levelwith bottom of ashpit. With one shovel-ing, therefore, the ashes are thrown frombottom of ashpit onto the car. Withthis kind of pit, there need
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . r ar-rangements have been made where abucket on wheels would run down railson an inclined plane, entering it fromthe side, by going underneath the rail. of shoveling stands at the side of pit onthe same level as bottom of pit, and inorder that he will not have too high athrow for ashes, the ash car track is de-pressed, the rails being about on a levelwith bottom of ashpit. With one shovel-ing, therefore, the ashes are thrown frombottom of ashpit onto the car. Withthis kind of pit, there need be no delayto engines, but it is expensive. The accompanying illustrations givedifferent views of the ashpit designed andpatented by Mr. C. R. Ord, master me-chanic of the Atlantic division of theCanadian Pacific Railway, at McAdamJunction, N. and it is claimed by theinventor that all the objections foundwith other methods have been overcomein this device. Fig. I shows the loadedbucket partially hoisted over furthertrack, and man in the pit is pushing a■^parc empty bucket into position under. FIG. 1. I,OADED .\SH BUCKET HOISTED READY TO SWING OVER ASH CAR. This form, though it would not keep anengine waiting while the full bucket wasbeing drawn out, worked from oneend of ashpan only, and a second ap-paratus of the same type was needed todispose of the ashes at the other end ofashpan. It would dump the ashes on carat the same point each time: thus thecar would need constant shifting. Thearrangement was further objectionable,as the rails upon which the bucket ranupwards extended over the ash car track,preventing a high car or an engine com-ing on that track. There is another form of ashpit knownas the open side ashpit, with depressedash car track. This pit has the rail onone side supported on columns or stand-ards, and the ashes can be shoveled outfrom tlie sides; the man doina; the work ashpan formerly occupied by bucket seenin the air. Fig. 2 is a view of ashpit withlocom
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