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. Electric railway journal . March April May June July August ... . L. C. L. MERCHANDISE CARS PER YEAR: 1913 1914 1915 1,379 1,311 1,142 1 1,367 1,387 1,192 1 t97 19171,6301,4701,8231,7921,8211,7791,6241,6171,595 Inbound car-standing capacity at freight warehouses 15 Ratio of cars per day to car capacity (per cent) 167 Driveway frontage per car capacity 37 Platform (floor) area (square feet) 10,080 Platform (floor) area per car capacity 272 Trucking distance from receiving door to car and return (feet) 40 NOTE—Approximately 80 per cent of tonnag
. Electric railway journal . March April May June July August ... . L. C. L. MERCHANDISE CARS PER YEAR: 1913 1914 1915 1,379 1,311 1,142 1 1,367 1,387 1,192 1 t97 19171,6301,4701,8231,7921,8211,7791,6241,6171,595 Inbound car-standing capacity at freight warehouses 15 Ratio of cars per day to car capacity (per cent) 167 Driveway frontage per car capacity 37 Platform (floor) area (square feet) 10,080 Platform (floor) area per car capacity 272 Trucking distance from receiving door to car and return (feet) 40 NOTE—Approximately 80 per cent of tonnage handled isfrom connecting line stations. Value of land per square foot (estimate in cents) 80 Outbound48 i transfer to or Scales: ; Type and Make Number Fairbanks, warehouse 5 Fairbanks, wagon. 1 Kron, automatic dial ] Toledo, automatic dial I Trucks: „ Type and Make Reynolds four-wheel, hand 8 Wooden two-wheel, hand 54 Elevators: None Individual Capacity10,000 ,000 ,500 ,500 lb. Number JORED?N RIVERTON. loading PlatformsHand Loading Platforms LOADING STATIONS FOR SUGARBEET FACTORIES ON THE SALTLAKE & UTAH RAILWAY having a two-storyoffice end with base-ment. The roof istar and gravelcomposition, laidon steel trestles andpurlins. The foun-dation is of con-crete and for partof the way is car-ried down 20 ft. tobed-rock. On theteam side of thebuilding there arefive sliding steeldoors, of sufficientwidth to accommo-date two teams. Thetrack side is com-posed entirely ofrolling steel doors,eighteen in doors are soarranged that it ispossible to run in a string of empty cars to the house track without spot-ting them, so that the car and freight house doors willbe exactly opposite, a procedure which is not alwayseasy or convenient. By this arrangement the freighthouse can be opened up to a car wherever it may be onthe track. On the team side, there is a wide, wooden canopycovered with Barret specification roofing and fastenedby heavy rods to the building col
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