Part 1

A Record Breaker

+----------------------------------+ | | | _The above log which was cut | | by the Sunset Timber Company | | of Raymond, Wash., measured | | thirteen feet, six inches at | | the butt and nine feet, two | | inches at the top. It was | | twenty eight feet long. The | | Seattle Car and Foundry Company | | simply points with pride to the | | load and calls attention to the | | fact that this car was only one | | of a large order from their | | stock patterns._ | +----------------------------------+

+----------------------------------+ | | | _Yosemite Valley Lumber | | Co., Merced, Cal., logging | | operations. This incline | | is 8700 feet long, part of | | which is 80% grade. Equipped | | by Seattle Car and Foundry | | Company. For detailed | | description of equipment see | | Yosemite Grade Destroyer._ | | | +----------------------------------+

CATALOGUE NO. 3

December, 1913

SEATTLE

CAR & FOUNDRY

COMPANY

Six awards Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Highest award Grand Prize. Logging Flat Cars, Logging Trucks, Patent Steel Bunks

_OWNERS OF PATENTS COVERING HERCULES BUNK AND KNIGHT PATENT CHOCK BLOCKS, ETC., ETC._

HOME OFFICES

Seattle, Washington

U. S. A.

_Branches_ _Works_

PORTLAND, ORE. RENTON, WASH. VANCOUVER, B. C.

Seattle Car & Foundry Co.

FOUNDED 1905

The Seattle Car & Foundry Company was started in 1905 by a few Seattle business men who had faith in the ability of the Pacific Coast to support a home industry of this nature. A steady growth both in scope and quantity of business has confirmed their judgment. Today the Seattle Car & Foundry Company not only competes on an equal footing with the east for the trade of the Pacific, but has extended its field successfully into Alaska, British Columbia, China and all other sections of the Orient. In its commodious, modern and efficient plant it designs and builds Flat Cars, Box Cars, Logging Cars, Logging Trucks, Air-Equipped Connected Trucks, Logging Bunks and Chocks, Gondola Cars, Refrigerator Cars, Plantation Cars and Cane Cars, Caboose Cars, Camp Cars, Industrial Cars, Contractors Dump Cars, Push Cars, Quarry Cars, Track Construction Cars, Tram Cars.

MAIN OFFICES

Alaska Building

=Seattle, Washington=

CABLE ADDRESS WORKS _Carco_, Seattle Renton, Wash.

The Leading Car Shops of the Pacific Coast

At the present time the works of the Seattle Car & Foundry Co. constitutes the largest and best equipped plant on the Pacific Coast for the manufacture of cars, trucks and contractor's equipment, with which is affiliated a rolling mill, providing us ample material under most favorable conditions.

While the shops are perhaps not so extensive as those of some of our Eastern and European competitors, they are capable of turning out work in sufficient quantities and of a quality to enable us to successfully bid on orders of any proportions.

We have been able to satisfy the most rigid requirements of such trans-continental railroads as the Northern Pacific, Southern Pacific, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, and the Harriman system, such electric companies as Stone & Webster, the British Columbia Electric Railway and the Portland Light & Power Company, not to mention successful competition in the Orient with the leading firms of Europe.

But in spite of this success we never lose sight of the fact that this plant was started primarily for the better service of the Pacific Coast--particularly of the Pacific Coast logging trade. In this field we claim a special fitness which has been proven, by the growth of our business, in a few years, from a very humble beginning into an organization of considerable industrial significance.

But whether you buy cars, trucks, forgings, castings, contractors, bridge building or mining equipment, we are in a position to give you better delivery than the East, greater capacity than any other coast shops of the same character, and prices that are most reasonable for the service rendered. Our sales and engineering department are at your disposal.

You will get satisfaction in dealing with us. Three quarters of our new business this year was from old customers. Why not get acquainted with them and us? Write them or us.

SEATTLE CAR & FOUNDRY COMPANY, 210-15 ALASKA BUILDING, SEATTLE, WASH.

_LIST OF SUBJECTS_

Treated in the order they appear in this

_CATALOGUE No. 3_

_Seattle Car & Foundry Co._

Trucks, Connected Trucks, Hercules Trucks, Skookum Trucks, Snohomish Trucks, Columbia Bunks, Hercules Bunks, McLafferty Bunks, Skookum Flat Cars Flat Cars, Yosemite Flat Cars, Lidgerwood Box Cars Box Cars, Chinese Box Cars, Special Purpose Cabooses Cabooses, Combination Camp Cars Ballast Cars and Gondolas Tank Cars Dump Cars Mining Cars Tram Cars Push Cars Useful Tables Satisfied Customers

_For information on further or Special Equipment, Address_

Seattle Car & Foundry Company 210-215 Alaska Building Seattle, Wash.

Air-Equipped Connected Truck

(CAPACITY 80,000 POUNDS, ALLOWABLE OVERLOAD 10%)

[Sidenote: _CODE "Connected"_]

=Part of a train of connected trucks operated by Smith-Powers Lumber Co. of Marshfield, Ore.=

Details of Air-Equipped Connected Truck

(CAPACITY 80,000 POUNDS, ALLOWABLE OVERLOAD 10%)

This car was designed with the object of providing heavy capacity Trucks with Air-Brakes, and at the same time reducing the dead weight and maintenance to a minimum. This has become a recognized Standard Logging Car, and as the design permits of considerable latitude in length of car and centers of bunks, we do not hesitate to recommend it to anyone who requires either Flat Cars or Trucks for strictly logging purposes. The convenience of operation as compared with other types of equipment is apparent. From an economic standpoint the comparison is even greater. Some of the advantages are given below in detail:

1st. SIMPLICITY. Few parts to get out of repair, consequently car is always in commission.

2nd. REDUCED COST. First cost is 18% less than Flat Car of same capacity and equipment.

3rd. SMALL COST OF MAINTENANCE. More than 50% less than Flat Car.

4th. SAFETY OF OPERATION. Greatly increased over detached Trucks on account of Air Equipment and rigidity of connection, and over Flat Car in loading and unloading on account of skeleton construction.

5th. REFUSE NOT CARRIED TO DUMP. No deck to accumulate rubbish, adding to dead weight of car, and carrying it to the dump where it is discharged, often necessitating dredging to secure necessary depth of water.

6th. REDUCED DEAD HAUL. Which is 30% less than Flat Car of same capacity and equipment. This is important where heavy grades are encountered.

7th. OPEN DESIGN. Facilitates operation of both loading and unloading, lessening the time required and reducing the danger. At the same time, ample protection is provided for Brake Rigging, eliminating danger of being fouled by falling logs.

8th. INCREASED BUFFING CAPACITY. Connecting timbers forming backbone of 300 sq. in. cross section, which offers great resistance to buffing shocks.

Length over timber, 40 feet, can be furnished up to 56 feet. Length over all, 42 feet. Width over connecting timbers, 30 inches. Height to center of Coupler, 2 feet, 10 inches. Height to top of Bunk, 48 inches. Width of Bunk, optional, 9 feet or 10 feet. Bunk centers in illustration, 24 feet, but is optional with purchaser. M. C. B. Automatic Couplers. Westinghouse Air Brakes. Inside Hung Metal Brake Beams. Standard Diamond Arch Bar Truck Frame. Metal Truck Bolster. Seattle Car Manufacturing Co.'s Patent Cast Steel Body Bolster in combination with Patent Cast Steel Bunks, riveted together, making solid section. Thirty-three inch Cast Iron Wheels, chilled tread, double plate. Steel Axles, 4½ × 8 inch Journals. Malleable Iron and Steel Castings used throughout. Draft Gear optional. (Twin Spring or tandem.) Bunks Cast Steel, Hercules Patent, equipped with Knight Patent Chock, the McLafferty Stake, or the Skookum Bunk. Weight, approximately 19,000 pounds. This Car is protected by U. S. Patents.

Air-Equipped Connected Truck

The Most Practical Skeleton Logging Car on the Market. Equipped With U. S. Safety Appliances to Meet Interstate Commerce Commission Requirements.

This car has done more to make the name of the Seattle Car & Foundry Co. well known among the logging fraternity than any other single one of our products. We instituted their use on the Pacific Coast. They were designed to avoid many of the obvious disadvantages of flat cars and to add the element of safety to trucks without materially increasing cost.

The letter which follows, pictures better than we could, the reception and experience of the trade, from the view point of the actual operator.

NORTHWEST LUMBER COMPANY Kerriston Mill Superintendent's Office

Kerriston, Wash., July 19, 1913

Mr. F. W. Chriswell, Chief Engineer, Seattle Car & Foundry Co., Seattle, Washington

Dear Sir:

Mr. Horton our Secretary has requested me to write you of our experience with the connected logging trucks which we have been using for the last three or four years.

In a general way I might classify this under two heads, construction and operation. Regards to construction of these cars will say, while they are seemingly light, we have found them very strong, and more serviceable in our logging than flat cars which we had previously used and are still using. The air equipment as arranged in these cars is very well protected, and we have experienced practically no trouble whatsoever from breakage. Due to the construction of these cars with their three sills as the only woodwork, we have found the cost of maintenance very little, perhaps due to a certain extent to the accessibility of the parts, which permit of a thorough inspection by simply walking past the car. In operating, we have found these cars exceptionally adapted to the hauling of logs, and during our four years experience do not recall an instance where the load has been spilled due to any fault of the bunk or blocks. Our cars, of which we have twenty-four in operation, are built on twenty-four foot truck centers with nine and ten foot bunks, and during the last year and a half we have lost but one log except through derailment. We find that these cars seemingly ride easier than the seven flat cars which we have in service, permit of a larger load and carry their loads to better advantage. These cars are easily loaded, and it is not uncommon that we haul nine and ten thousand feet to the car. Our loads will average between seven and eight thousand feet per car. All of the trainmen who have worked on these cars, and the loaders in the woods like them very much. The fact that they are easy to load leads the loaders to put on a good load on them and in a careful manner, and in an all around way will consider them very much superior to the flat cars we are using, being seven in number of the standard logging type.

Any further information which I may be able to give you and which you may desire, will be furnished with pleasure upon request.

Very truly yours, GEO. N. PECK, General Superintendent

_This Letter is Typical of Dozens We Have Received_

List of Parts--Standard Car Equipment

=CASTINGS--=

Give pattern number where possible in addition to list number.

1 BUNK 2 BUNK BRACKETS 3 JOURNAL BOX 4 JOURNAL BOX COVER 5 JOURNAL BOX WEDGE 6 COLUMNS 7 COLUMN GUIDES 8 JOURNAL BEARING 9 BOLSTER FILLER 10 CHAFING IRON 11 BRAKE SHOES 12 BRAKE WHEEL 13 RATCHET 14 PAWL 15 TOP CENTER PLATE 16 BOTTOM CENTER PLATE 17 CHOCK BLOCK 18 SIDE BEARINGS

=FORGINGS--=

19 TOP ARCH BAR 20 BOTTOM ARCH BAR 21 TIE BAR 22 TRUCK BOLSTER 23 SPRING PLANK 24 INTERMEDIATE LEVER 25 CYLINDER LEVER 26 LIVE LEVER 27 DEAD LEVER 28 DEAD LEVER STOP 29 DEAD LEVER STOP BRACKET 30 INTERMEDIATE LEVER FULCRUM 31 PUSH ROD 32 CENTER CONNECTION 33 TOP CONNECTION 34 BOTTOM CONNECTION 35 HAND CONNECTION 36 CONNECTION PINS 37 LEVER CARRIERS 38 CYLINDER BRACKETS 39 RESERVOIR BRACKETS 40 RELEASE VALVE HANDLE 41 PIPE CLIPS 42 BRAKE STAFF 43 BRAKE HANGER 44 SAFETY HANGER 45 GRAB HOOK AND CHAIN 46 FOLLOWERS 47 KNIGHT CHOCK BLOCK 48 CHAIN FOR CAST CHOCK BLOCK 49 CHAIN FOR "KNIGHT" CHOCK 50 TAIL STRAP 51 CARRY IRON AND BRAKE STEP 52 CARRY IRON 53 STRIKING PLATE 54 HAND CONNECTION BRACKET 55 CENTER PIN 56 CENTER PIN KEY 57 UNCOUPLING LEVER 58 UNCOUPLING LEVER BRACKET 59 BRAKE SHOE KEY

=AIR EQUIPMENT--=

60 AIR CYLINDER 61 AIR RESERVOIR 62 UNION 63 STRAINER 64 CUT-OUT COCK 65 ANGLE COCK 66 HOSE COUPLING 67 RETAINER VALVE 68 RELEASE VALVE 69 TRIPLE VALVE 70 TRAIN PIPE "B" END 71 TRAIN PIPE "A" END 72 NIPPLE 73 RETAINER PIPE 74 CROSS-OVER PIPE

=LUMBER--=

75 CENTER SILL 76 FILLER 77 DUST GUARDS

=SPECIALTIES--=

78 WHEELS 79 AXLES 80 TRUCK SPRINGS 81 DRAFT SPRINGS 82 COUPLER 83 "HUNTOON" BRAKE BEAMS 84 WASHERS 85 BRAKE ROD JAWS 86 PUSH ROD JAWS 87 DRAFT LUG

TRUCKS--Hercules, Snohomish and Skookum

[Left Sidenote: =Business of Making Trucks is one of the Specialties in which we Acknowledge no Superior.=

=We Build Regular Stock Lines and to Special Requirements.=

=Speedy Delivery Guaranteed.=]

[Sidenote: =Seattle Car and Foundry Co.'s Trucks Are Made for Pacific Coast Conditions.=

=Over 7000 in Actual Use.=

=Write to Those Who Have Tried Them.=]

LAKE WHATCOM LOGGING CO.

BELLINGHAM, WASHINGTON.

REFER TO OUR FILE NO

Mr. O. D. Colvin, Vice Pres. & Mgr. Seattle Car Mfg. Co., Alaska Bldg., Seattle, Wash.

Dear Sir

Your Hercules logging trucks are the best car for heavy logging that I have seen and we are now buying no other. My experience dates back twenty-five years and I am familiar with the old N.P. trucks and G.N. trucks which when put out in '93 were the best trucks made, and also the trucks manufactured in Tacoma, Seattle and by ourselves. We have had them all more or less in our trains for the last ten years and have opportunities to observe them under all classes of service. We have had less repairs and less trouble on account of hot boxes with your cars than any others. Our cars are all equipped with the Knight chock block which we find very effective and safe.

Yours truly, LAKE WHATCOM LOGGING COMPANY. ~J J Donovan~ JJD/FMB.

This letter is a good example of what practical loggers think of Seattle Car & Foundry Co. trucks and bunks.

[Sidenote: _CODE "Scochief" Number 97_]

=Our 1914 Truck=

"Skookum Chief"

(100,000 POUNDS CAPACITY. STRONGEST LOGGING TRUCK EVER BUILT.)

The Skookum Chief, One-Piece Cast Steel Truck Frame is a radical departure from the old and well known designs and is a distinct step forward. The cast steel frame in locomotive tender construction and passenger car trucks has been widely used and is in favor. The use of cast steel has many advantages. The most economic distribution of metal is made possible, and greatest strength with least weight is the result. In a built-up frame there is always some weak point which is usually where the parts are bolted together. Bolts become loose and nuts are lost. A comparison of the Skookum Chief with any other truck cannot fail to show clearly its advantages in this respect. The Side Frame, End Frame, Draft Beams and Bolster being in ONE PIECE eliminates possibility of weakness where these parts are usually joined by bolts, and the sections of the various parts are so well proportioned that nothing short of a serious wreck could cause failure. The repairman would be almost unnecessary and the Truck would always be in commission, making it possible to handle the business of a camp with one or two sets of trucks less.

Equipment of Skookum Chief

Bunks--Hercules Cast Steel, either 9 or 10 feet.

Chocks--"Knight," "McLafferty," or "Skookum"

Wheels--33 inch Chilled Cast Iron.

Axles--Steel with 5 × 9 Journals.

Couplers--Automatic with bottom unlocking lever.

Brakes--Either Inside or Outside Hung Beams with Hand Wheel at side.

Capacity--The capacity of this truck is limited only by the axles. The frame will carry a 50% overload.

[Sidenote: _CODE "Herksteel" Number 127_]

=Equipped with Knight Patent Chock Block and Cast Steel Bolster=

Hercules Logging Truck

A STEEL TRUCK OF 80,000 CAPACITY THAT HAS CARRIED 120,000 SAFELY

This is a steel frame truck, with cast steel bolster and bunk brace, and is here shown with structural bunk, but may be equipped with cast steel bunk of either the Hercules, McLafferty or Skookum patent, and also with steel draft beams, making an all steel truck.

33-inch Chilled Cast Iron Wheels and Steel Axles, with 4½ × 8 inch Journals. Height from rail to center of Drawbar, 25½ inches, and to top of Bunk, 40½ inches. Length over Draft Beams, 9 feet, 6 inches.

Automatic Couplers with Bottom Unlocking Attachments. Brake Shoes applied to all Wheels, with hand wheel at side or hand lever at end. Weight, approximately 18,000 pounds per set.

[Sidenote: _CODE "Hercules" Number 122_]

=Equipped with Knight Patent Chock Block=

Hercules Logging Truck

(MADE IN ANY CAPACITY FROM 40,000 TO 70,000 LBS. PER SET OF TRUCKS)

Designed for heavy service and has proved its efficiency in handling the long, heavy timbers of the Northwest.

Our Standard Class A Truck Number 122, as shown in cut, is equipped with Hercules Patent Bunk, 9 feet long, and Knight Patent Chock Block. At purchaser's option can furnish our Patent Cast Steel Bunk, in either 9 or 10-foot lengths, of Hercules, McLafferty or Skookum Patent.

33-inch Chilled Cast Iron Wheels and Axles with 4½ × 8-inch Journals. 28 or 24-inch wheels are optional.

Height from Rail to center of Drawbar, 2 feet, 1½ inches. Height from top of Rail to top of Bunk, 3 feet, 4½ inches. Length over Couplers, 12 feet.

Automatic Couplers with Side-Unlocking Lever and M. C. B. Standard Draft Spring. Cast Iron Link and Pin Drawbar can be substituted.

Brake Shoes applied to all wheels with hand wheels at side or hand lever at end.

Truck Frame is the Rigid Diamond Arch Bar type with Steel Channel Spring Plank.

Bolsters of Red Fir heavily trussed.

Weight approximately 17,000 pounds per set.

The above Bunk and Chock Blocks are covered by U. S. and Canadian Patents and are manufactured exclusively by Seattle Car & Foundry Co., Seattle, U. S. A.

[Sidenote: _CODE "English"_]

=To Couple with Standard Railway Equipment=

High Hercules Logging Truck

Designed to Couple with Standard Railway Equipment. Two feet, ten inches from Rail to center of Coupler.

MADE IN CAPACITY OF 70,000 LBS. PER SET OF TRUCKS

This cut shows our Class G-2 Truck, No. 125, which is equipped with Hercules Patent Bunk 9 feet long and Knight Patent Chock Block.

33-inch Chilled Cast Iron Wheels and Axles with 4½ × 8 inch Journals.

Height from top of Rail to top of Bunk, 4 feet.

Automatic Couplers with Side Unlocking Lever and M. C. B. Standard Draft Springs.

Brake Shoes applied to all wheels with hand wheel at side or lever at end.

Truck Frame is the Rigid Diamond Arch Bar Type with Springs under Bolster and Steel Channel Spring Plank.

Extra heavy Bolster of Red Fir, heavily trussed.

Special Equipment may be same as our Class A-2 Hercules Truck.

Length over all, 12 feet, 0 inches. Weight approximately 18,000 pounds per set.

HERCULES LOGGING TRUCK

List of Parts

=Castings--=

1 JOURNAL BOX 2 JOURNAL BOX COVER 3 JOURNAL BRASS BEARINGS 4 JOURNAL BOX WEDGE 5 BOLSTER COLUMNS 6 COLUMN GUIDE 7 BOLSTER BOTTOM CENTER PLATE 8 BOLSTER TOP CENTER PLATE 9 INSIDE BOTTOM SIDE BEARING 10 OUTSIDE BOTTOM SIDE BEARING 11 TOP SIDE BEARING 12 CAST IRON CHOCK BLOCK 13 BUNK BRACE 14 DRAW BAR 15 DRAFT LUGS 16 D B CHAFING IRONS 17 BRAKE HEADS 18 BRAKE SHOES 19 BRAKE WHEEL 20 BRAKE RATCHET 21 BRAKE DRUM & RATCHET (for Hickey Brake) 22 BRAKE PAWL 23 BRAKE PAWL (for Hickey Brake) 24 INSIDE BRAKE STAFF BEARING 25 OUTSIDE BRAKE STAFF BEARING 26 BRAKE BEAM FULCRUM 27 JAW FOR BOTTOM CONN. ROD (2 hole) 28 JAW FOR BOTTOM CONN. ROD (1 hole)

=FORGINGS--=

29 TOP ARCH BAR 30 BOTTOM ARCH BAR 31 TIE BAR 32 SPRING PLANK 33 TOP END BAR 34 BOTTOM END BAR 35 HEEL BRACE 36 FRAME CORNER GUSSET 37 BOLSTER TRUSS ROD 38 BOLSTER TRUSS ROD WASHER 39 BOLSTER TRUSS ROD SADDLE 40 BOLSTER END BAND 41 BRAKE HANGER 42 BRAKE HANGER CLIP 43 BRAKE BEAM SAFETY HANGER 44 BRAKE BEAM WASHER PLATE 45 BRAKE BEAM END BAND 46 BRAKE SHOE KEY 47 BRAKE LIVE LEVER 48 BRAKE DEAD LEVER 49 DEAD LEVER STOP 50 BOTTOM CONNECTION ROD 51 HAND CONNECTION 52 HAND CONNECTION CHAIN 53 CONNECTION PINS 54 BRAKE STAFF 55 HICKEY BRAKE HANDLE 56 CENTER PIN 57 CENTER PIN KEY 58 TOP MEMBER OF I-BEAM BUNK 59 BOTTOM MEMBER OF I-BEAM BUNK 60 KNIGHT CHOCK BLOCK 61 KNIGHT CHOCK BLOCK CHAIN 62 CAST IRON CHOCK CHAIN 63 CAST CHOCK CHAIN U BOLT 64 GRAB HOOK 65 GRAB HOOK CHAIN 67 GRAB HOOK CHAIN EYE BOLT 68 BUNK STOP CHAIN 69 BUNK STOP U-BOLT 70 BUNK STOP U-RIVET 71 BUNK BRACE ANCHOR 72 BUNK BRACE CHAIN 73 FOLLOWER PLATE 74 FOLLOWER GUIDE 75 DRAFT TIMBER TIE PLATE 76 TAIL PIN 77 TAIL PIN KEY 78 COUPLING PIN 79 COUPLING LINK 80 CARRY IRON 81 CARRY IRON & BRAKE STEP (for Hickey Brake) 82 STRIKING PLATE

=SPECIALTIES--=

83 TRUCK WHEELS 84 AXLES 85 TRUCK SPRING 86 DRAFT SPRING

=LUMBER--=

87 BOLSTER 88 DRAFT TIMBER 89 BRAKE BEAM

[Sidenote: _CODE "A.Y.P."_]

=Brakebeams, Inside or Outside Hung, Optional with Purchaser=

All-Steel "Snohomish" Type Logging Truck