Engineering and Contracting . Cost Engineer, Maintenance ofWay Department, racific Electric Railway Co., Los Angeles, Cal. The Pacific Railway Co. in Southern California op-erates 1,000 miles of electric interurban lines, radiat-ing in all directions from Los Angeles, some lines ex-tending 65 to 70 miles in one direction. If a ballast plowwere maintained in service it would cause the work tobe carried on disadvantageously, as transportation ofsuch equipment through large cities, from one line toanother, is not always permissible on account of restric-tive ordinances. Consequently, to meet with
Engineering and Contracting . Cost Engineer, Maintenance ofWay Department, racific Electric Railway Co., Los Angeles, Cal. The Pacific Railway Co. in Southern California op-erates 1,000 miles of electric interurban lines, radiat-ing in all directions from Los Angeles, some lines ex-tending 65 to 70 miles in one direction. If a ballast plowwere maintained in service it would cause the work tobe carried on disadvantageously, as transportation ofsuch equipment through large cities, from one line toanother, is not always permissible on account of restric-tive ordinances. Consequently, to meet with economicmeasures and have standard means for expeditious per-formance of the work, the ballast shoe shown by thedrawing has been designed. It is fabricated in the com-panys shops, 1-in. steel being used in its construction,as steel of lesser thickness will not satisfactorily standup under the strain of the load. The ballast shoes when placed on the rails permit a workmotor to push the front wheels of the car trucks up onto. Oi IOu^e^ f- i^ Device for Spreading Ballast for Electric Railway the treadway, as shown. Three standard length ties arethen placed one on top of the other; one rides upon therails and the other two are affixed on extending armsmade a part of the shoe, as shown. Thus the ties formthe desired barrier for spreading the ballast. Hicksstandard center dump ballast cars have proceeded and dis-tributed the rock; then same motor and empty cars returnand spread the ballast, thereby economizing on worktrain service and avoiding tie-ups to the usual frequentservice operated on electric lines. This device is su-perior to a method sometimes adopted by other roads oftaking a work motor and one car, locking the car wheelsand placing a barrier of ties in front and shoving carover the rails. This practice almost invariably resultsin flattened wheels, due to some extent to the finer rockor gravel accumulating on rails. With use of ballastshoes this is impossible. Each shoe w
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