. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . iberty Street, New York, November, 1916. No. 11 Locomotive Cranes for Railway Use Various Kinds of Work Performed—Crane Can Move Itself and Spot Cars—Larger and More Powerful Machines Now Being Used The use of locomotive cranes for rail-way operating as well as constructionwork has been and is a phase of the trans-portation industry which has made veryremarkable progress in recent years. Informer days the steam ditcher wasthought to be a necessity for construction be said of a certainty where
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . iberty Street, New York, November, 1916. No. 11 Locomotive Cranes for Railway Use Various Kinds of Work Performed—Crane Can Move Itself and Spot Cars—Larger and More Powerful Machines Now Being Used The use of locomotive cranes for rail-way operating as well as constructionwork has been and is a phase of the trans-portation industry which has made veryremarkable progress in recent years. Informer days the steam ditcher wasthought to be a necessity for construction be said of a certainty where heavy andotherwise slow contiinious work has tobe done. One of the most interesting featuresabout locomotive crane work is the intro-duction of electricity into the cranes can be equipped with a small confined to the radius of the crane whole machine is capable of not onlypropelling itself along the track, but isable to haul several cars up a grade. Onlevel 18 to 20 loaded SO-ton cars is not anexcessive performance. Thus a series ofrail cars can be unloaded by the magnet. LOCOMOTIVE BEING SUPPLIED WITH BV , USIXG PICKUP OR GR.\B BUCKET. work, but today railways handle coal,ore, stone, cinders, gravel, sand, etc. Todo this work the modern locomotive craneis equipped with a grab bucket. Theorange-peel bucket takes care of heavyexcavating work. .\ drag-line bucketdoes drag-line work with great fact, many forms of hand labor arenow replaced by the crane and this may dynamo run by the steam generated bythe crane boiler, and when this is donethe contact between the load and thelifting chain is made by a powerful elec-tro-magnet. The big steel rails, scrap,bars, sheets and castings can be liftedfrom a car and swung round by the craneso as to be placed where desired. Thearea of distribution of such loads is not attachment, but when the space on eachside of the track is tilled the crane andthe cars containing the rails can bemoved ahead
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