. Electric locomotive haulage in and about mines . t bottom with the loaded cars, and the Good-man machine carries the empty cars up into the rooms, from whencethe mules carry the cars to the face. Plate 47 illustrates thehaulage ways of this mine. * ccc < 0 Q. O o i. O -J O -J o ui ! <►JD P uJ 111 < *3z o 0 ooto a 000 10 to 0 s 59 Appendix B. Later Information on the History of Electric Mine Locomotives In 1889,the Thomson-Houston Electric Co., installed in theErie colliery of the hillside Coal & Iron Co., the locomotiveillustrated in Plate 48. This locomotive was of the single motor
. Electric locomotive haulage in and about mines . t bottom with the loaded cars, and the Good-man machine carries the empty cars up into the rooms, from whencethe mules carry the cars to the face. Plate 47 illustrates thehaulage ways of this mine. * ccc < 0 Q. O o i. O -J O -J o ui ! <►JD P uJ 111 < *3z o 0 ooto a 000 10 to 0 s 59 Appendix B. Later Information on the History of Electric Mine Locomotives In 1889,the Thomson-Houston Electric Co., installed in theErie colliery of the hillside Coal & Iron Co., the locomotiveillustrated in Plate 48. This locomotive was of the single motortype and the transmission was a set of gears instead of chainand sprocket as in the preceeding machines. It is said that thismachine is still in service. A locomotive known as the Terrapin Back,was built by thesame company in 1891 and several of these machines have operatedcontinuously since this time. Plate 49 is an illustration ofthis type of machine. Fio. 1.—H. M. 80. Mink Locomotive. Installed in 1889. Still in Plate 49
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