. The street railway review . RODGKIS BALLAST CAR—SIDK DUMP. RODGKU CAR-CKNTKH llKOf. posited, as may be needed for track raising, tamping in or top dress-ing. The car can also be arranged to use with a top plow, deposit-ing its entire contents on the sides of the track if desired and byopening the side doors about two-thirds of the load can be dumpedon the sides of the track automatically. When not needed as acenter dump ballast car or a side dump car for plowing oflf on thesides of the track, it can quickly and easily be converted into astandard flat bottom gondola car. suitable fo
. The street railway review . RODGKIS BALLAST CAR—SIDK DUMP. RODGKU CAR-CKNTKH llKOf. posited, as may be needed for track raising, tamping in or top dress-ing. The car can also be arranged to use with a top plow, deposit-ing its entire contents on the sides of the track if desired and byopening the side doors about two-thirds of the load can be dumpedon the sides of the track automatically. When not needed as acenter dump ballast car or a side dump car for plowing oflf on thesides of the track, it can quickly and easily be converted into astandard flat bottom gondola car. suitable for all gondola purposes. As an automatic center dump car this has been found very valu-able for interurban construction, and the plan followed is to makeexcavations either in the country or city streets, to the grade de-sired, throwing the dirt to one or both sides, then the track is laidjust where wanted and thoroughly ballasted, allowing traffic to bestarted at once and leaving the work of cleaning up and gradingalongside
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