Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1912 — BUILT TO CARRY THE SAND [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BUILT TO CARRY THE SAND

Chicago Railway Has Found It Pays to Have Special Cars for this Purpose.

The Chicago City Railway operates two specially constructed cars for the delivery of sand to the supply boxes from which the train crews fill the sand boxes on the cars. The supply boxes are located at some 75 different points. The ordinary truck car used for the

transportation of sand proved inadequate, so the company constructed two tank cars provided with unloading apparatus. The capacity of the sand tank is 24,500 pounds of dry sand up to the dome, the balance of the space being left for air storage. The sand Is pneumatically discharged Into the supply boxes through a three-inch wire-wound hose. —Popular Mechanics.

One of the Tank Cars Used by the Chicago City Railway to Deliver Sand to the Supply Boxes.