. Building and repairing railways . byone man by means of compressed air whichoperates to move the dumping attachments of allthe ears in the train at the same time. The bal-last can be dumped all on one side of a rail orboth sides, or all on the outside of both rails orall on the inside of both rails. When the ballast used is broken slag or stone,care should be taken to have a sufficient supplyto draw from before putting the surfacing gangat work. It La advisable in case of any class ofballast to have a sufficient quantity distributed along the track before the surfacing gang is putto work in
. Building and repairing railways . byone man by means of compressed air whichoperates to move the dumping attachments of allthe ears in the train at the same time. The bal-last can be dumped all on one side of a rail orboth sides, or all on the outside of both rails orall on the inside of both rails. When the ballast used is broken slag or stone,care should be taken to have a sufficient supplyto draw from before putting the surfacing gangat work. It La advisable in case of any class ofballast to have a sufficient quantity distributed along the track before the surfacing gang is putto work in Order to guard against delays indelivery. A plant is required to prepare stone ballast which should be located at a quarry? storage binsshould be provided of capacity sufficient to load atthe least a t rain of cars; it is still more economical,however, to have the capacity of the plant suchthat when the cars are put in service I hey can bekept continuously employed until the work is completed, 334 BUILDING AND HEP AIMING Fig. 258. SECTIONAL PERSPECTIVE VIEW GATES STONE CRUSHER FOR BALLAST. REFERENCE TABLE. The names of the several parts designated by numbers in the above illus tion may be found in the following table: 1. Bottom Plate. 12. Band Wheel. 25. Main Shaft. 2. Bottom Shell. 13. Break Hub. 26. Upper Ring Nut. 3. Top Shell. 14. Break Pin. 27. Lower Ring Nut. 4. Bearing Cap. 15. Oil Bonnet. 28. Steel Step. 5. Oil Cellar Cap. 16. Dust Ring 29. Lighter Screw. 6. Spider. 17. Dust Cap. 30. Lighter Screw, 7. Hopper. 18. Head. Nut. 8. Eccentric. 19. Concaves. 31. Counter Shaft. 9. Bevel Wheel. 22. Chilled Wearing 33. Oiling Chain, 10. Wearing Ring. Plates. n. Bevel Pinion. 24. Octagon Step. Jam MAIXTEXAXCE OF WAT. 335 A large sized Gates stone crusher is illustratedby Fig. 258; this is of the rotary style which istaking the place of those having a jaw worked bya reciprocating motion. The drawing gives thedetails of the crusher and Fig. 259 shows the
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