. Book of the Royal blue . on a oneand a half per cent grade to the top of the E & OHIO RAILROAD AT BALTIMORE. pier. At the summit the cars run over a100-ton Fairbanks track scale, and areautomatically weighed. As cars can beunloaded on both sides simultaneously, eachtrack has its set of scales. After theweighing the cars run to the unloadingpockets. These are made of steel, eachending in a long steel spout, which isdropped to the vessels hatchway. Thereare Z^> of these pockets and spouts on eachside of the pier, two being assigned foranthracite coal. ton steel cars, and with a requisite am
. Book of the Royal blue . on a oneand a half per cent grade to the top of the E & OHIO RAILROAD AT BALTIMORE. pier. At the summit the cars run over a100-ton Fairbanks track scale, and areautomatically weighed. As cars can beunloaded on both sides simultaneously, eachtrack has its set of scales. After theweighing the cars run to the unloadingpockets. These are made of steel, eachending in a long steel spout, which isdropped to the vessels hatchway. Thereare Z^> of these pockets and spouts on eachside of the pier, two being assigned foranthracite coal. ton steel cars, and with a requisite amountof vessel tonnage, that the maximum capac-ity of the pier will be 1,000 tons per order to handle the vast number ofcars to be unloaded, and to quickly movethe empties, an immense yard is constructedat Curtis Iay. Its capacity is 1,800 superstructure of the pier provides formany future improvements. The capacityof the pockets, of which 100 additionalcan be erected, will be from 180 to 350tons T EXTREME LEFT AXIi THE BALTIMiiUE YACHT AT EXTREME UKiHT. When the drop bottoms in the cars areopened and the coal has been dropped, thecars run by their own momentum to theswitch-back at the end of the they reach the return track and rundown an incline of 1,800 feet to the yard,being weighed on a third pair of automaticscales while moving. It is calculated that with the use of 50- The coal pier is built in a most sub-stantial manner of Georgia pine, and some8,000,000 feet of lumber was used in itsconstruction. It is proposed to maintain achannel 300 feet wide and 30 feet deepfrom the entrance of the bay to the shoreline of the pier, so that any vessel whichcan navigate Chesapeake Bay can load atthe Curtis Bay pier.
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