Seattle Car and Foundry Company

“ The length of the radius of a railroad curve is measured to the center of the track.
Civil engineers designate railway curves by degrees (using the sign ° for degrees and " for minutes, there being 60 minutes in one degree) . The sharpness of the curve is determined by the "degree of curve," or the number of degrees of the central angle subtended by a chord of 100 feet. ”

“ This dump car is particularly adapted for use in quarries in connection with lime or cement works, where a light easy running car is required. The body and truck frame is unusually rigid for a small capacity car, which adds much to its life. The body of the car is built of steel plate strongly braced with steel angles and the top rocker bearing is a steel casting. The bottom bearing is a forged jaw with a square shank which sets into a recess in the truck frame in such a manner that it cannot raise in dumping, but the body may be lifted from the trucks without removing any bolts or keys. ”

“ FLAT CAR DEPARTMENT
Years of experience on the Pacific Coast have taught us to meet conditions peculiar to this locality. Our low logging flats have become standard among the trade. Being located in the heart of the best timber producing section of this continent our opportunities for selecting the finest sills and decking are unsurpassed. ”

“ The chock block on opposite end is readily adjusted to the position desired.
The men are never required to get on the unloading side of car. In flat car service the cost of all wooden stakes and blocks is eliminated, a saving alone in one year more than the cost of the Hercules Bunks.
Flat Cars can be unloaded in a fraction of the time, with absolutely no danger to employees, and the strain on car body reduced to a minimum, thereby increasing the life of the car.
When applied to flat cars a steel channel is substituted for the I-beam. ”

“ Cross bearers are located intermediate of the bolsters, and are sufficiently strong to carry the loads from the side sills to the center construction. Experience has proved that for logging cars, steel is unsuited for use in side sills, as continual shocks, resulting from discharging the load, cause their failure. For this reason red fir side sills were introduced in this car, making the underframe a composite construction of steel and timber. ”

“ The object of this construction is that the body will become separated from the truck in case the car is derailed and rolls down an embankment permitting the two parts to be handled with little difficulty. The angle of dump is ample to clear the load and the door is free to swing permitting a free discharge of the load without bringing any shock upon the door, which in the case of the door being held in a fixed position often causes an upset car and the consequent disabling of the car. ”

“ Bunk is made of high grade Cast Steel and is a picture of massive strength. It is as positive in its operation and as simply perfect in its mechanical construction as the automatic coupler. It facilitates and expedites the handling of logs, assuring a saving of at least ten cents a thousand and eliminates all possibility of danger to the operator. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ In practice it will be found best to make trials on different parts of the curve to allow for irregularities. It is best not to measure across from one end of the curved track to the other even when the curve is so located that this is possible, since if any portion of the straight track at either end of the curve is included the result will be incorrect. ”

“ The equipment includes Automatic Couplers to Couple with Standard Equipment, 33 inches above rail, and 33 inch Chilled Cast Iron Wheels fitted on Steel Axles with 5 × 9 inch Journals.
Journal Boxes are Malleable Iron. No Cast Iron is used with the exception of Brake Shoes.
The Center Bearing of the Bunk and Bolster is so constructed that the Bunk cannot turn over under load when train is started or stopped suddenly, as the Bunk cannot be removed from the Truck until it is turned parallel to the Draft Beams. The "Rainier" Truck stands for safety first. ”

“ From the fact that Cast Steel is substituted for structural design the expense of repair parts is practically eliminated while the factor of safety is sufficient to meet all demands unless cars meet with a wreck. ”

“ The efficiency of this car is a simple mathematical problem. Compare this 4-Bunk Car with a Flat Car with four bunks of the same capacity and note the saving. The percentage of dead weight to log capacity is 30% as compared to 361⁄4% for the flat car or a car cost per thousand feet logs of $78.50 as compared to $93.50 for flat car. ”

“ Buffing Iron, cast steel. The truck frames are of cast steel instead of the usual arch bar type. Couplers are provided with a swinging carrier casting to allow side travel to the coupler and bring the coupler to the center by gravity. Uncoupling device is the Carmer patent. The car is equipped with Westinghouse air brake with hand brake staff arranged to stand vertically or drop to a horizontal position thus providing for projecting logs. The trucks are equipped with roller motion bolsters. Axles have M. C. B. 5 × 9 inch journals and 33 inch chilled cast iron wheels. ”

“ Castings are of Steel and Malleable Iron. Stake Pockets are Pressed Steel.
The Deck is of Fir Plank. Brake Equipment is for Hand only with Brakes applied to all wheels.
The Trucks are a standard 60,000 pounds capacity truck, for 3 feet gauge with 24 inch wheels of Chilled Cast Iron, Steel Axles, Malleable Iron Journal Boxes, Standard Brass, Structural Steel Bolster, Metal Brake Beams, supported from Malleable Iron Columns. This car was furnished the U. S. Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. ”

“ For several years the necessity of providing economical, sanitary and convenient commissary and living accommodations for the employes of Lumber Camps has induced us to investigate fully the best equipment now in use for that purpose and has enabled us to design equipment of Portable Camp Trains to meet the requirements of individual operators. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Hercules Patent Double Eye Beam Logging Bunk and Knight Patent Chock
Can be applied to any type of Logging Truck or Flat Car. Indestructible in service. No repairs. Weight approximately 1300 lbs.
The Chock Block attachment is simple in construction, easily adjusted and quick and positive in operation.
When Chock Blocks are in position against logs and grab hook applied, the load is secure.
Steam Hammer
To unload, the grab hook is removed and the movement of the log slides chock block over end of bunk as illustrated in figure. ”

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

“ These Bunks are built up of Structural Steel and are equipped with trip stakes. The stakes are released or tripped from the safety side of car. The other difference is that there is a 10 × 10 in. center sill between the two main sills which extends from draft rig to draft rig.
Where short length logs are handled four bunks must be provided in order to permit of thirty and forty ton loads. This car meets these conditions perfectly. Small cars of twenty and twenty-five ton capacity are not heavy enough for economical and careful handling in heavy trains. ”

“ The car is designed with the object of loading halves of beef suspended from trolleys and left hanging in the car while in transit so that it may be quickly removed at destination. This greatly facilitates the loading and unloading of the beef. Thrust Bars are located at intervals to prevent the meat from swinging.
Gauge, 4 feet, 81⁄2 inches. Length, 34 feet. Width, 9 feet, 2 inches. Height inside, 9 feet, 11 inches. Height from Rail to center of Coupler, 2 feet, 101⁄2 inches. Center Sills built up of Steel Plates and Angles. ”

“ The other illustration is of a car of 60,000 pounds capacity Center Dump Ballast with the ordinary Winding Shaft and Ratchet to operate the Doors. The special feature of this car is the Radical Draft Gear fitted with a Standard Automatic Coupler, as the car is operated around a curve of 35 foot radius, and the Center Bearing is a Ball-bearing mounted on Hemispherical Center which greatly reduces Flange wear on curves. ”

“ Wooden Framed Ballast Car
A steadily increasing demand throughout the Northwest for better roadbeds has led us to build a very strong, serviceable Ballast Car for the use of contractors and privately owned railways. ”

“ The doors are arranged for a Wide Opening and so hinged that the door will offer no resistance to large obstructions, and so obviates any tendency to overturn the car when dumping. As the Car Body is brought to an upright position the doors close automatically. ”

“ This car was specially designed for the Yosemite Valley Lumber Co. to operate on an incline 8,000 feet long, with a maximum grade of 78%, the rise in feet from the foot of the incline to the top being 3,100 feet, the incline being in a vertical plane, but following the general slope of the mountain side and changing from one slope to another. ”

“ Brake Shaft can be furnished to operate with lever at end or wheel at side. Weight of 100,000-pound capacity Truck, 22,000 pounds. Weight of 80,000-pound capacity Truck, 20,000 pounds. Height to center of Coupler, 2 feet, 6 in., or 2 feet, 9 in. Length over Draft Sills, 9 ft. Length over all, 12 ft.
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CODE
"Snohomish"
Number 124
With Steel Bolster and Double I-Beam Hercules Bunk
"Snohomish" Logging Truck
Universal Milling Machine
This illustrates our 80,000-pound capacity Snohomish Truck, with all Metal Frame and Bolster, but with Fir Draft Timbers. ”

“ Length inside, 33 feet. Length inside Passenger Compartment, 19 feet. Seating Capacity, 24 persons. Length inside Baggage Compartment, 9 feet. Length of Cupola, 5 feet. Equipment includes Stove, Toilet, Lockers, Conductors Valve and Air Gauge, Desk, Automatic Air Brakes and Couplers, Standard Arch Bar Trucks with full Elliptic Springs.
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CODE
"Ballast"
Number 127 Ballast Cars for Standard Track Work
View of Standard Ballast Car, showing arrangement of Hoppers
The car illustrated herewith is an 80,000 pounds capacity Center Dump Ballast Car with Center Bulkhead. ”

“ The door is of fir. Wheels are self oiling.
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CODE
"Carhan"
Number 137 Standard Section Hand Car
(CAPACITY 35 CUBIC FEET)
This cut shows Car built for Standard 4 feet 81⁄2 inch Gauge. We make ten different styles of Hand Cars, Standard and Special, and can make them any Gauge desired.
Platform, 6 feet long, 4 feet, 4 inches wide. Axles, 15 inches. Wheels, 20 inches diameter.
Pressed Steel Wheels furnished unless otherwise specified. Weight, 510 lbs., packed for export, 750 lbs.
CODE
"Pushcar"
Number 135 Push Car
This car is made in capacities of from one to three tons. ”

“ The following well known corporations are among those who have purchased equipment of us and availed themselves of our Service Department:
NORTHERN PACIFIC R. R. O. W. R. & N. R. R. C. M. & ST. P. R. R. OREGON ELECTRIC RY. CO. SPOKANE & INLAND R. R. STONE & WEBSTER B. C. ELECTRIC RY. CO. PENINSULAR RY. CO. U. S. GOVERNMENT TIENTSIN-PUKOW R. R. SUN NING RY. YOSEMITE VALLEY R. R.
and hundreds of the leading logging, milling, mining and contracting concerns of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.
SEATTLE CAR & FOUNDRY CO.
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UNION PRINTING Co. ”