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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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used. It is arranged with side and cen-ter dump and has a 28-ft. body. Thiscar has been found particularly usefulin handling crushed stone where it isloaded from the chutes at the stone binsof the quarry along with the motor carand dumped on the track. SPECI.A.L WORK CAR A good idea of the special work car isobtained from Fig. 11. This is a standard work car 40 ft. longand carries a standard 3-ton Brown hoisting crane. The steelboom is long enough to work at a radius of 20 ft., andwill handle a load of 4000 lb. at a 15-ft. radius; the cranewill lift 7000 lb. In case a heavier lift is required out- loaded on the car with the crane and brought to the site.When everything is ready for renewal the crane picks upthe old work and places it on the special work car, thenthe operator hooks on the new work on special work carand drops it in place. It is then only necessary for the trackgang to connect up the work again. This routine is eco-nomical as compared with the old method of putting in a
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