. Electric railway journal . g capacity of each of the old cars was the new unit seats 52. The weight of the bodywithout the trucks, trolley or other equipment is approximately 18,000 lb. The drawing shows the carmounted on 33-in. wheels, but it is now mounted onStandard 0-50 trucks with 30-in. wheels and four West-inghouse No. 512 motors. The heights of the twosteps from the street to the well are 15 in. and 14% The height of the riser from the well tothe floor of the car is 10 in. The cost of splicing thetwo old cars as described was about $1000. Motor Trucks with S
. Electric railway journal . g capacity of each of the old cars was the new unit seats 52. The weight of the bodywithout the trucks, trolley or other equipment is approximately 18,000 lb. The drawing shows the carmounted on 33-in. wheels, but it is now mounted onStandard 0-50 trucks with 30-in. wheels and four West-inghouse No. 512 motors. The heights of the twosteps from the street to the well are 15 in. and 14% The height of the riser from the well tothe floor of the car is 10 in. The cost of splicing thetwo old cars as described was about $1000. Motor Trucks with Steel-FlangedWheels The accompanying photographs show an applicationof a motor truck in salvaging rails on an abandonedlumber and tie road on the Burlington system. Thisran from Nahant, Mont., into the great forests ofthe Black Hills to the west. The motor truck wasused instead of a steam locomotive because wood-burn-ing locomotives, the only ones available, were debarredunder the forest reserve laws, the track was in bad re-. SALVAGING RAILS IN THE BLACK HILLS BY MEANS OF AUTOTRUCK EQUIPMENT pair and there was a rank growth of grass over thetrack. A White l1/^ to 2-ton truck was used and in thefirst month of service it covered about 3300 miles, av-eraging 108 miles a day. By the use of a flat car asa trailer it was able to haul 12 tons of rails into Na-
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