. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . No. 2—SPECIALLY CONSTRUCTED CONTAINER LOADED WITH DIRT, BEING HOISTED TO THE TOP OF THIS CUT The organization required for this workwas as follows: One foreman. One engineer. One water boy. One cart and driver (for hauling waterand coal). One man at top of slope, releasingboxes and spreading dirt. One or two men guiding boxes up slopewith rope, and dragging boxes back toposition for loading. Two men building track. One night watchman. Sixteen men sloping and filling boxes. This organization, working at onehundred per cent, efficiency, can handlefour hu
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . No. 2—SPECIALLY CONSTRUCTED CONTAINER LOADED WITH DIRT, BEING HOISTED TO THE TOP OF THIS CUT The organization required for this workwas as follows: One foreman. One engineer. One water boy. One cart and driver (for hauling waterand coal). One man at top of slope, releasingboxes and spreading dirt. One or two men guiding boxes up slopewith rope, and dragging boxes back toposition for loading. Two men building track. One night watchman. Sixteen men sloping and filling boxes. This organization, working at onehundred per cent, efficiency, can handlefour hundred boxes per No. 3—DIRT BEING LOADED INTO THE CONTAINERS THE HALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZIM 49 As the slope was completed it wascovered with street sweepings and sownwith grass seed. This makes a perma-nent slope and greatly improves theappearance of the right-of-way, whichwe are trying to maintain in the finestcondition on llu^ Phila(leli)hia-(1iicag()Line. The lowest contract estimate tor thiswork was ninety cents per yard. Thefact that the work was handled byCompany forces, with this equipment,at less than sixty cents per yard, speakswell for the maintenance of way organi-zation of the Baltimore Division. The scheme was originated and workedout b} H. ]\I. Church, division derrick car with hoisting apparatuswas designed and built by E. , general foreman at LocustPoint, and the work of sloping and ditching was done under tlic direction ofA. (i. Zepp, supervisT)r. The accompanying pictures give a goodidea of the various operations. No. 1—This shows the stationary e
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