Where conditions do not permit use of off-track machines, Illinois Central employs shovels mounted atop specially fitted flat cars; each ditching outfit incorporates two diesel powered shovels, Jordan spreader and four 20-cu yd air-actuated side-dump cars; description of typical operation on 31-ft deep cut. (see also Ry Track Structures v 49 n 1 Jan 1953 p 56-7)


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    Title :

    How IC uses "long-stick" crawler shovels in widening cuts


    Additional title:

    Ry Age


    Published in:

    Railway Age ; 134 , n 3


    Publication date :

    1953


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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