Railroad Construction, Theory And Practice; a Text-Book for the Use of Students in Colleges And Technical Schools
Railroad Construction, Theory And Practice; a Text-Book for the Use of Students in Colleges And Technical Schools
Webb, Walter Loring, 1863- [from Old Catalog]
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They perform all the work of loosening and loading. Their economical working requires that the material shall be hauled away as fast as it can be loaded, which usually means that cars on a track, hauled by horses or mules, or still better by a locomotive, shall be used. The ex- penses for a steamnshovel, costing about $5000, will average about $1000 per month. Of this the engineer may get $100 ; the fireman $50; the cranesman $90; repairs perhaps $250 to $300; coal, from 15 to 25 tons, cost ver...y variable on account of expen- sive hauling; water, a very uncertain amount, sometimes costing $100 per month; about five laborers and a foreman, the laborers getting $1.25 per day and the foreman $2.50 per day, which will amount to $227.50 per month. This gang of laborers is employed in shifting the shovel when necessary, taking up and relaying * For a thoroui^ treatment of the capabilities, cost, and management of steam-shovela the reader is referred to " Steam-shovels and Steam-shovel Work," by B.
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