. The trackman's helper, a handbook for track foremen, supervisors and engineers . Section gDia. inside. Plan. Fig. 19. Section and Plan of Q. & C. Sprinkling Car on cinder, sand, gravel, or earth ballast, with equallygood results, and many western roads are making ex-tensive tests both to destroy the weeds and grass, andto prevent the heaving of track by frosts. Any de-velopment that will relieve the track department of 118 THE TRACKMANS HELPER weed cutting and at the same time allay the dust willmeet with general approval. We show herewith in Fig. 19 a section and a planof the Q. & C. oil sp
. The trackman's helper, a handbook for track foremen, supervisors and engineers . Section gDia. inside. Plan. Fig. 19. Section and Plan of Q. & C. Sprinkling Car on cinder, sand, gravel, or earth ballast, with equallygood results, and many western roads are making ex-tensive tests both to destroy the weeds and grass, andto prevent the heaving of track by frosts. Any de-velopment that will relieve the track department of 118 THE TRACKMANS HELPER weed cutting and at the same time allay the dust willmeet with general approval. We show herewith in Fig. 19 a section and a planof the Q. & C. oil sprinkling car. A 4-inch pipe runsthe full length of the car with rubber hose attachmentsto the oil supply, which is carried in ordinary tankcars. To this main pipe other pipes are attached byrubber hose so that they can be raised or lowered ac-cording to the surface of the roadbed. Each sidesprinkler is adjusted by a hand wheel with chain at-tached to a staff supporting the outer end of the rails are protected from the oil spray by a suit-able device, as shown in the sectional view.
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