. Electric railway journal . ufficient time forunloading. This necessitated the dumping of the carsin the yard and reloading the ballast into work cars forfinal distribution. To dump this ballast upon the ground or onto a plat-form level with the rail and to attempt to handle theballast with reasonable cost and speed was impossibleand gave rise to the scheme pictured herewith. Theideal system would be to erect a suitable trestle overstorage bins and to have track for work cars near thebins. Such an installation was not practical in this in-stance for lack of space for the trestle and overheadr
. Electric railway journal . ufficient time forunloading. This necessitated the dumping of the carsin the yard and reloading the ballast into work cars forfinal distribution. To dump this ballast upon the ground or onto a plat-form level with the rail and to attempt to handle theballast with reasonable cost and speed was impossibleand gave rise to the scheme pictured herewith. Theideal system would be to erect a suitable trestle overstorage bins and to have track for work cars near thebins. Such an installation was not practical in this in-stance for lack of space for the trestle and overheadroom beneath the cables from the near-by power house. In the plan worked out and used with great successtwo tracks practically parallel were selected and oneof them was raised by trestle bents made of ties to anelevation of about 6 ft. above the other track. Then asloping floor, having a pitch of about 45 deg. and madeof 2-in. oak plank, was constructed under the elevatedtrack. The space from the toe of the slope to the other. CLOSE VIEW OF BALLAST IN STORAGE SPACE 258 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIX, No. 6 track was floored with sheet iron covered with someold scrap plates such as are sometimes fitted to cross-ings. The grade of the incline was made about 5 percent, and the work cars used to haul the ballast carshad no trouble in setting the latter upon the trestle. As the dump doors on the cars are let down, theballast runs out and assumes a position where it caneasily be handled by the work-car crews. The empty
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