Illustrated note on installation at storage and barge loading plant of Carbon Fuel Co on Kanawha River near Marmet, W Va; loading coal into barge directly from railroad cars as received from company's mines, 23 mi distant, is done at rate of 250 tons per hr; car shaker consists of motor-driven eccentric vibrator which spans width of railroad car and rests on top edges of car body.


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    Title :

    Electric shaker speeds unloading of railroad cars


    Additional title:

    Coal Age


    Published in:

    Coal Age ; 51 , n 12


    Publication date :

    1946


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


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