. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 1918 No. 1 Transferring Coal from Railroad to Vessel The methods of transferring coalfrom railroads to vessels, big and little,has, during recent years, undergonesome important developments. Specialmachinery has come more and moreinto service. And yet, some of theolder methods are continued, partly be-cause they are still good methods, andpartly because the necessities for a ports. There are a number at NewYork harbor, several at HamptonRoads and a couple at Baltimore, Charleston, ,
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 1918 No. 1 Transferring Coal from Railroad to Vessel The methods of transferring coalfrom railroads to vessels, big and little,has, during recent years, undergonesome important developments. Specialmachinery has come more and moreinto service. And yet, some of theolder methods are continued, partly be-cause they are still good methods, andpartly because the necessities for a ports. There are a number at NewYork harbor, several at HamptonRoads and a couple at Baltimore, Charleston, , the Southern Rail-way operates a movable car dumper—that is, a dumper which moves on itsown track out onto the deck of a largepier. The moving belt has also come in- (!ecks the coal is brought, not in thecars used- to bring the coal from themines to the seaboard, but in speciallymade electrical coal cars. They rununder their own power from the dump-ers to the land-end of the pier, wherethey are received by elevators whichhoist car and coal to the deck 90 the water. These cars then move. HOPPER COAL CAR UP SIDE DOWN (IX DUMPER. COAL TASSIXG THROUGH TELESCOPE CHUTE TO BOAT. change have not been sufficiently press-ing. The mechanical car dumperhas come into prominent use at manyplaces. Most of these, so far as theUnited States is concerned, are at rail-road terminals on the Great Lakes,particularly on Lake Erie. Car dumpersare also in service at several Atlantic i- service as a means of conveying coalafter it leaves the dumper and bringing it out onto the pier and placing it atpoints from which it may be morereadily put into the vessels. Such beltsform part of the system in use in Haiti-more. At Hampton Roads, the mostmodern piers are those onto whose ;.long the deck to the desired points.\t Charleston, X C. the railroad car istaken out onto the pier Sometimestlu car dumper is right alongside thewaters edge. The loaded car is ele-vated and dumped, the coal movementbeing
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