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Title: Railway and Locomotive Engineering
Year: 1904 ( 1900s)
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Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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ew York, November, 1916. No. 11 Locomotive Cranes for Railway Use Various Kinds of Work Performed—Crane Can Move Itself and Spot Cars—Larger and More Powerful Machines Now Being Used The use of locomotive cranes for rail- be said of a certainty where heavy and confined to the radius of the crane arm. way operating as well as construction otherwise slow continuous work has to The whole machine is capable of not only work has been and is a phase of the trans- be done. propelling itself along the track, but is portation industry which has made very One of the most interesting features able to haul several cars up a grade. On remarkable progress in recent years. In about locomotive crane work is the intro- level 18 to 20 loaded SO-ton cars is not an former days the steam ditcher was duction of electricity into the problem, excessive performance. Thus a series of thought to be a necessity for construction These cranes can be equipped with a small rail cars can be unloaded by the magnet
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LOCOMOTIVE BEING SUPPLIED WITH COAL BY CRANE, USING PICK-UP OR GRAB BUCKET bucket work, but today railways handle coal,ore, stone, cinders, gravel, sand, etc. Todo this work the modern locomotive craneis equipped with a grab bucket. Theorange-peel bucket takes care of heavyexcavating work. .-X drag-line bucketdoes drag-line work with great facility.In fact, many forms of hand labor arenow replaced by the crane and this may dynamo run by the steam generated bythe crane lioilcr, and when this is donethe contact between the load and thelifting chain is made by a powerful elec-tro-magnet. The big steel rails, scrap,bars, sheets and castings can be liftedfrom a car and swung round by the craneso as to be placed where desired. Thearea of distribution of such loads is not attachment, but when the space on eachside of the track is filled the crane andthe cars containing the rails can bemoved ahead and distribution again re-sumed. The modern locomotive crane can befitted with a set of blocks an

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