Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1912 — USE THE ELECTRIC CAPSTAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

USE THE ELECTRIC CAPSTAN

Novel Method of Moving Railroad Cars from the Vicinity of Factories. Unless an industrial plant is large enough to employ Its own switch engines (either steam at electric) it is dependent on the railroad company for the moving of any cars placed on ltd sidetracks, and much time is often' lost by not haying these moved more frequently. In teaming practice, wagons are always moved away from the platforms as fast as they are loaded or unloaded, and for economical handling the same should be done with

tie heavier cars on rails. Some manufacturers have gone to the of using gangs of men with steel lev. ers to move the cars, but this is a slow and costly method, v, Now comes the electric capstan and says: “If I can lpove ships, why not cars?" Why not, indeed? A strong hawser with a hook at one odd is easily attached to the head of the pap* Stan so that' a single man cau move the car at the rate of from 50 to 100; feet a minute. By mounting a pulley { alongside the track and passing the rope over it, the car can Just as eas- j ily be moved away from the capstan, thus making the car users independent of all switch engines while close to* their works.—Popular Electricity. 6 ‘ '

Electric Capstan For Moving Cars.