Engineering and Contracting . ngine, five large E XM-, I N E E R I N GAND CONTRACTING plows, not distinguishable in the picture, tear up the yard and a half shovel, shaped like an ordinary slipscraper, then picks up the loose material, lifts it to the topof the machine and dumps it in a movable hopper. Thismovable hopper is shown extended to the side where thematerial is being dropped into a dump wagon. The smallengine operates the movable hopper. The machine was designed, patented and built by L. , Alden, la., and is being used by him on his contractwith Hardin County. This contr
Engineering and Contracting . ngine, five large E XM-, I N E E R I N GAND CONTRACTING plows, not distinguishable in the picture, tear up the yard and a half shovel, shaped like an ordinary slipscraper, then picks up the loose material, lifts it to the topof the machine and dumps it in a movable hopper. Thismovable hopper is shown extended to the side where thematerial is being dropped into a dump wagon. The smallengine operates the movable hopper. The machine was designed, patented and built by L. , Alden, la., and is being used by him on his contractwith Hardin County. This contract calls for about 82,000cu. yd. of excavation at 18 ct. per cubic yard. A DEVICE FOR LOADING AND UNLOADINGAUTOMOBILES FROM END DOOR BOX CARS. A movable platform arrangement is used at Riverside,Cal., and other points on the Santa Fe Ry. to facilitatethe unloading of automobiles or other commodities. Thedevice has a pair of movable rails which are placed ontop of the regular track so that platform can be movedout to the Automobile Unloading Platform. When not in use the device stands locked in a recessin the platform which it serves and is a part of thatplatform. When in use and a car which is to be unloadedis spotted, the platform is unlocked, its rails adjusted,and it is pushed out to serve the side or end door of thecar which has been placed to be loaded or unloaded. Afterthe automobile or other commodity has been removed fromthe car onto the device and the device has been pushedback into its recess, the automobile or other commodityis then rolled off onto the main platform. When two ormore care are to be unloaded, one car can be spotted oneach side of the device and while one car is being un-loaded the other can be prepared for unloading, thusmaking an additional saving in time. This condition canbe extended in like manner over as many tracks as is caredto operate over. The arrangement was devised by Mr. B. J. Simmons, Di-vision Engineer of the Santa Fe, and J. H. Ba
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