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Mr. B=
ernard
Blum:
Referring
to Mr. Stevens letters of Nov. 10 and 11 asking if Hart Selective Ballast =
and
Coal cars Enterprise Multi-service cars and 100 M hopper cars (series
70050-70199) can be used to advantage in handling coal to Northern Pacific=
coal
docks: From a study of plans
obtained from the Mechanical Department it appears that any of these cars =
would
be suitable for this purpose.
The
inside pair of doors of both the Hart and Enterprise
Mr.
Stevens raises the question as to the necessity of making two spots for
unloading where we have shorts hoppers. At most of our buckets and conveyer
type docks the hoppers are 30 feet long at the following docks: - LaMoure,
Hazen, Pullman Jct., Toppenish,
Even
with as twenty foot hopper it would be possible to empty any of the three =
types
of cars if built in the 50 ton capacity, with one spot. It would be necess=
ary
to make two spots to unload 70 tons cars of any type of a 20 foot hopper b=
ut
this is necessary with our present equipment so there is no disadvantage f=
rom
that standpoint. The beams over 20 foot hoppers will support 70 ton cars. =
Apparently
there would be no difficulty in handling any of these cars over the vertic=
al
curve on the Great Northern type docks (*), if the cars have been built
according to the plans which have been examined. Before lowering either the
Hart or
Bridge
Engineer
* The=
Great
Northern type coal dock – The NP originally looked at the Great
Northern’s method of coaling using a trestle arraignment and then
adopting it as an NP standard. For more history on this refer except from
letter of