Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-12-19
\. v. BATT|N
IN MONTANA
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roadbed width will be completed from
the cut on the opposite side of the
coulee. Anticipating winter weather
conditions the completion of this work
will require we'll into the winter The
second steam shovel ob is being con-
Quoted at Box Elder Greek, ao)ut 10
miles east of the city; this work is
under the direction of w. B. Cronk
and Involves yardage of 100000 in
in that immediate neighborhood. The
fill here is being N ade in two lifts, the
first of which is so feet high, the
second to be 10 feet The opening
proper at this point has been delayed
about two months awaiting decision of
the railroad authorities as to what di-
mansions to assign to the double arch.
With the concrete work going on
underneath the trestle, special care
has had to be exercised in the hand
ling of the material for filling; the
concrete work was completed about
November 28th, then allowing the
dinky outfit full swing as to place for
dumping. In both cuts where steam
shovel 1858, Model 70 G Bucyrus, has
been working, the mejor part of the
digging has been in hard pan CT the
hardest kind.
The water at Box Elder is poor end
is the cause of leaky fues in steam
shovel and dinkeys, in spite of the use
of boiler compound expressly pur-
chased for that water. With winter
weather it will probably require the
months of December and January to
finish the present embankment, after
which the w. B. Cronk outfit will
move to Rogers Coulee where an
equivocal yardage is to be moved.
The third steam shovel outfit is in use
with e. S. Hill, involving the new
model IS g purchased for that work.
The material is the stiffest kind of
rubbery gumbo, lined and scanned in
such way as frequently to come out
in chunks yard TO l yard in size.
The shovel was purchased with two
yard dipper which swings once for
each of the cars 10 HIPS outfit, the
capacity OF the latter being two yards.
HIPS cut is 55 feet deep and about
800 feet long which involves frequent
moving back. The top of his first
lift trestle was placed 20 feet below
grade; on the start this made necessary
the movement Of the material.
through vertic al height Of Is feet.
To compass the same, series of
switch banks became necessary,
which finally resolved themselves
nto four legs with grades of 2.5 and
80. The arrangement was so made
that the dinkeys were in front on the
30 grades and the engines behind on
the Esq grades. Both of them have
been found practicable, as there has
been no difficulty in getting IL
empty 2 yd cars up the grades at all
times. AS precaution against the
trains breaking in two and letting a
portion of the loaded train down
against an empty train at the meeting
points, So cable has been used to
connect the cars, regardless of the
regular links and Drawbacks. With
the third run of the steam shovel, the
latter is down about 80 feet below the
top of cut. To meet these successive
an oauxiliary leg of the
switch back has been graded from time
to time, the new grade catching into
the former grade and successfully |
cutting out the upper legs of the |
switch back. In connection with the
operation of the switch backs, it
should be understood that the dinkeys
in use on HIPS work, are of the ton
Davenport type.
The weather conditions have been !
fine.