PART 1.--Steam Shovels 1-19

" 2.--Steam Shovel Work 19-41

" 3.--Disposition of Material 41-55

" 4.--Cost of Steam Shovel Work 55-57

INDEX.

Ballast, plowing, 48

Blasting, 39, 52

Brine, sprinkling earth, 52

Cars, dump, 19, 41, 47 Flat, 42 Loading, 19 Unloading, 42, 47

Cost of work, 55

Cuts, 28, 36, 39 Time for, 17 Widening, 19

Explosives, 39, 52

Fills, trestles for, 47

Grades, construction track, 34 Cutting down, 28

Grading, 25

Gravel train, 42, 45, 50 Engines for, 50 Unloading, 48

Leveling, 53

Loading cars, 19 Gangs for, 21, 22, 23

Operating, men for, 18

Plow, Barnhart, 43 Gravel, 42

Plowing, cable for, 50 Gravel train, 48 Hauling engine for, 51 Winter, brine for, 52

Railways, construction, 33 Reducing grades, 28 Widening cuts, 19

Railway work, 18, 28, 33

Rapid unloader, 51

Spreaders, 53

Steam shovels, Barnhart, 6 Boilers, 9 Bucyrus, 4 Clement, 10 Daily capacity, 41 Description, 5 Giant, 12 Invention of, 1 Little Giant, 12 Industrial Works, 10 Machinery of, 5 Marion S. S. & Dredge Co., 6 Number of men, 18 Operation, 16 Osgood, 2 Otis-Chapman, 14 Repairs, 19 Souther's, 14 Thompson, 4 Toledo F. & M. Co., 8 Types, 3 Victor, 8 Vulcan Iron Works, 12

Tools, 16, 18

Track, arrangement of, 19 Narrow gage, 47

Trains, dirt, handling, 19, 42, 45, 48, 50

Trestles for fills, 47

Widening cuts, 19

STEAM SHOVELS AND STEAM SHOVEL WORK.[1]

[Footnote 1: Copyright by Engineering News Publishing Co., 1894.]

By E. A. HERMANN, M. Am. Soc. C. E.