. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . d Wheels on Motor Trucks In Service of the Creston Consolidated Mining Company The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company,Clintonville, Wis., has shown a cleverinnovation by providing traveling de luxefor a number of the companys employeestl and from work. The adaptability ofthe motor truck to operate on railroadtracks has made the four mile ride of thir-t\-five of the men employed by the Cres- that run from their homes to the mines,as shown in the second illustration. Eventhe driver has protection fr
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . d Wheels on Motor Trucks In Service of the Creston Consolidated Mining Company The Four Wheel Drive Auto Company,Clintonville, Wis., has shown a cleverinnovation by providing traveling de luxefor a number of the companys employeestl and from work. The adaptability ofthe motor truck to operate on railroadtracks has made the four mile ride of thir-t\-five of the men employed by the Cres- that run from their homes to the mines,as shown in the second illustration. Eventhe driver has protection from the ele-ments in an all weather cab. Adjustabletarpaulins are readily attached to protectthe passengers when the necessity similarly situated shouldtake notice, and profit by a good example. similar amount was borrowed last year,but proved insufficient to complete theline owing to advances in maintenancecosts and deficits in operation. The pre-mier stated that $36,0000,000 has beenspent to date by the province on the con-struction of the railway and more wouldhe MOTOR TRUCK IN I.\, Si;i;\ li 1; .MDioi; lUCiK WITH \m:£1) \\iiij;, son Consolidated Mining Company to andfrom the mines as comfortable as riding ina Pullman car. The motor truck, a 3-tonF. W. which formerly was run oxerrough roads, as shown in the first illus-tration, has been equipped with flangedwheels, and is now carrying its passengers,in real comfort over the smooth steel rails To Complete Pacific Great Eastern Authority has been secured by PremierOliver, of British Columliia, to borrow$4,000,000 for the completion of the Pa-cific Great Eastern Railway. It is ex-pected that the line will be in operationto Prince George by March, 1922. A American Society for Steel Treating Announcement has been made that theAmerican Society for Steel Treating willhold its annual convention and exhibitionat Indianapolis, Ind., on September 19 to24, inclusive,
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