. American engineer and railroad journal . el sleeping and parlor cars to equip the entirePennsylvania System. JuLv, 1910. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 267 NEW QUICK DUMPING ORE CAR. car representing a lot of 300 cars which it is building at its • Chicago plant, the Western Steel Car & Foundry Co., for the Pressed Steel Car Compaxv. Duluth & Iron Range, and the Duluth, Missaba & Northern Railroads, in the design of which is shown what can be done The transportation of ore from the mines to the docks at the when hampering limitations are removed. This car, of which Great Lakes and th
. American engineer and railroad journal . el sleeping and parlor cars to equip the entirePennsylvania System. JuLv, 1910. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 267 NEW QUICK DUMPING ORE CAR. car representing a lot of 300 cars which it is building at its • Chicago plant, the Western Steel Car & Foundry Co., for the Pressed Steel Car Compaxv. Duluth & Iron Range, and the Duluth, Missaba & Northern Railroads, in the design of which is shown what can be done The transportation of ore from the mines to the docks at the when hampering limitations are removed. This car, of which Great Lakes and the unloading of the ore from the cars on the several views are presented, is all steel construction, and has docks into the vessels for transportation over the lakes has the following general dimensions: always been an important part in the economical production of Length over striking plates 22 ft. 1 in. iron and steel, and the railroad companies engaged in this trans- wiXoversi rk S.■.■.■. [[l ll l^^^]::[[ll^^ sVi ilJ. VIEW OF QUICK DtJMPlNG ORE CAR WITH POSITIVE DOOR OPERATIXG GE.\R, SHU\\IXG THE DOORS OPEN. portation have endeavored to own the best of cars and the bestconstructed docks in order to facilitate the unloading of thecars and the rapid loading of the vessel, all of which reduces thecost of trainsportation and the final cost of the ore at thefurnaces. The development of the cars to meet modern requirements onthe lines of greater capacity and greater rapidity of unloadinghas, however, been considerably hampered by the permanent andexpensive construction of the docks with pockets at regularshort distances corresponding to the distances between thehatches on the vessels and in accordance with which the oldequipment of wooden cars was built. This condition of circum-stances cannot be changed without building new docks and chang-ing the vessels, which is, of course, impracticable, as it woulddestroy interchangeability. This necessitates confining the gen-eral di
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