Identifier: baltimoreohioemp07balt (find matches)
Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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crew at work. There havebeen two derailments of locomotives here re-cently, so I had some chance of seeing how thewreck crews act. They do not use a crane, buthand-power jacks of various sizes, raising theengine up on blocks and ties, and graduallypushing it over upon the track. On a simplederailment they use large crank-operated jacks.In serious derailments, such as the last one(when the little switch engine split a switch,knocked over a jumping post, and proceeded tobury itself up to its axles in the clay), they use alarger jack, working on the same principle asthe capstan on a boat, with the possible excep-tion that the lever works on a rachet. A ropeis attached to the handle, or lever, near the end.One man stands at the jack and pushes on thelever while two or three pull on the rope. Theman at the jack then pulls it back on the rachet,and they pull again, until by this laboriousprocess they get another block underneath. Will drop you a line later, when I get theopportunity. Fr^nk.
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Standard Track and Station, Woodlyn, Pa., Baltimore Division

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