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Identifier: railwaymechanica95newy (find matches)
Title: Railway mechanical engineer
Year: 1916 (1910s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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romptly on arrival atthe pier. In order to secure themaximum capacity of the pierduplicate unloading facilities havebeen provided. Two separate cardumpers, one handling a SS-toncar and the other two 55-ton cars,or one 120-ton car, dump intoelectrically operated conveyor cars.The conveyor cars from onedumper are drawn by a cable haul-ing system up an incline to the topof the pier, from which point theyare moved by electricity to theproper chute and the coal dumpedthrough by air pressure. Theother dumper is served by an ele-vator that lifts the car to a trackrunning over the pier pockets. Under normal conditions theVirginian moves a large pro-portion of its traffic in its own equipment, consisting prin-cipally of gondola and hopper cars of 55 tons capacity and,latterly, 120 tons capacity. Two of the former cars can behandled on the two-car dumper, or one 120-ton car, fromwhich it will be noted that the adoption of a car carrying 163 164 RAILWAY MECHANICAL ENGINEER Vol. 95, No. 3 2/0f—
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March. 1921 RAILWAY MECHANICAL IM.IXEER 165 a less load would have the effect of reducing the capacity ofthe dumper and the effii iency of the pier. With thi> in mind,plans were made for the development of equipment havingtwice the gross weight of the 55-ton cars. In 1917 fourSimple 120-ton cars were placed in service to determine gondola and hopper cars, with a capacity of 60 ton-, weigh41.001) lb. and 44,000 lb., respectively, making the ratio 74.5and 7S.2 per cent. The 120-ton cars are 49 ft. 6 in. long inside, while the.55-ton hopper cars are 32 ft. 6 in. long and the gondola- 40

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  • bookyear:1916
  • bookdecade:1910
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Railroad_engineering
  • booksubject:Engineering
  • booksubject:Railroads
  • booksubject:Railroad_cars
  • bookpublisher:New_York__N_Y____Simmons_Boardman_Pub__Co
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:181
  • bookcollection:carnegie_lib_pittsburgh
  • bookcollection:americana
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