. American engineer and railroad journal . SUMMERS STEEL ORE CAR—DULUTH AND IRON RANGE RAILROAD. level of a classification yard some 20 feet with over two millioncubic yards of filling material. The use of these cars for thiswork materially reduced the cost of handling refuse materialover that of other years notwithstanding they were operatingat a great disadvantage on account of having to do the workand keep traffic open through the yard at the same time. A till which can be made by discharging the load all at oneside and follow up the fill by moving the track over, is wherethis design of car
. American engineer and railroad journal . SUMMERS STEEL ORE CAR—DULUTH AND IRON RANGE RAILROAD. level of a classification yard some 20 feet with over two millioncubic yards of filling material. The use of these cars for thiswork materially reduced the cost of handling refuse materialover that of other years notwithstanding they were operatingat a great disadvantage on account of having to do the workand keep traffic open through the yard at the same time. A till which can be made by discharging the load all at oneside and follow up the fill by moving the track over, is wherethis design of car is especially advantageous, and under suchconditions will save its cost in a comparatively short time. This type of car has also proven itself to be specially adaptedfor ore traffic and the illustration above shows a design, 800 ofwhich are now under construction, for the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad. This order followed a long experience with a sam-ple car. Of course, the ore car, while following the same generalfeatures, differs
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