The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.

A Record Breaker

Standard Connected Trucks

(Skeleton Car)

The above log which was cut by the Sunset Timber Company of Raymond, Wash., measured thirteen feet, six inches at the butt and nine feet, two inches at the top. It was twenty eight feet long. The Seattle Car and Foundry Company simply points with pride to the load and calls attention to the fact that this car was only one of a large order from their stock patterns.

Yosemite Valley Lumber Co., Merced, Cal., logging operations. This incline is 8700 feet long, part of which is 80% grade. Equipped by Seattle Car and Foundry Company. For detailed description of equipment see Yosemite Grade Destroyer.

CATALOGUE NO. 3
December, 1913
SEATTLE
CAR & FOUNDRY
COMPANY

Six awards Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition. Highest award Grand Prize. Logging Flat Cars, Logging Trucks, Patent Steel Bunks

OWNERS OF PATENTS COVERING HERCULES BUNK AND KNIGHT PATENT CHOCK BLOCKS, ETC., ETC.

HOME OFFICES

Seattle, Washington

U. S. A.

BranchesWorks
PORTLAND, ORE.RENTON, WASH.
VANCOUVER, B. C.

[WORKS AT RENTON, WASH.]

Seattle Car & Foundry Co.

FOUNDED 1905

The Seattle Car & Foundry Company was started in 1905 by a few Seattle business men who had faith in the ability of the Pacific Coast to support a home industry of this nature. A steady growth both in scope and quantity of business has confirmed their judgment. Today the Seattle Car & Foundry Company not only competes on an equal footing with the east for the trade of the Pacific, but has extended its field successfully into Alaska, British Columbia, China and all other sections of the Orient. 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.

MAIN OFFICES

Alaska Building

Seattle, Washington

CABLE ADDRESS WORKS
Carco, Seattle Renton, Wash.

[The Leading Car Shops of the Pacific Coast]

At the present time the works of the Seattle Car & Foundry Co. constitutes the largest and best equipped plant on the Pacific Coast for the manufacture of cars, trucks and contractor's equipment, with which is affiliated a rolling mill, providing us ample material under most favorable conditions.

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.

We have been able to satisfy the most rigid requirements of such trans-continental railroads as the Northern Pacific, Southern Pacific, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, and the Harriman system, such electric companies as Stone & Webster, the British Columbia Electric Railway and the Portland Light & Power Company, not to mention successful competition in the Orient with the leading firms of Europe.

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. Our sales and engineering department are at your disposal.

You will get satisfaction in dealing with us. Three quarters of our new business this year was from old customers. Why not get acquainted with them and us? Write them or us.

SEATTLE CAR & FOUNDRY COMPANY,
210-15 ALASKA BUILDING,
SEATTLE, WASH.

[LIST OF SUBJECTS]
Treated in the order they appear in this
CATALOGUE No. 3
Seattle Car & Foundry Co.

For information on further or Special Equipment, Address

Seattle Car & Foundry Company
210-215 Alaska Building
Seattle, Wash.

[Air-Equipped Connected Truck]
(CAPACITY 80,000 POUNDS, ALLOWABLE OVERLOAD 10%)

A detailed description of this truck will be found on the following page

This design is protected by U. S. patents

CODE
"Connected"

Part of a train of connected trucks operated by Smith-Powers Lumber Co. of Marshfield, Ore.

Details of Air-Equipped Connected Truck
(CAPACITY 80,000 POUNDS, ALLOWABLE OVERLOAD 10%)

This car was designed with the object of providing heavy capacity Trucks with Air-Brakes, and at the same time reducing the dead weight and maintenance to a minimum. This has become a recognized Standard Logging Car, and as the design permits of considerable latitude in length of car and centers of bunks, we do not hesitate to recommend it to anyone who requires either Flat Cars or Trucks for strictly logging purposes. The convenience of operation as compared with other types of equipment is apparent. From an economic standpoint the comparison is even greater. Some of the advantages are given below in detail:

1st. SIMPLICITY. Few parts to get out of repair, consequently car is always in commission.

2nd. REDUCED COST. First cost is 18% less than Flat Car of same capacity and equipment.

3rd. SMALL COST OF MAINTENANCE. More than 50% less than Flat Car.

4th. SAFETY OF OPERATION. Greatly increased over detached Trucks on account of Air Equipment and rigidity of connection, and over Flat Car in loading and unloading on account of skeleton construction.

5th. REFUSE NOT CARRIED TO DUMP. No deck to accumulate rubbish, adding to dead weight of car, and carrying it to the dump where it is discharged, often necessitating dredging to secure necessary depth of water.

6th. REDUCED DEAD HAUL. Which is 30% less than Flat Car of same capacity and equipment. This is important where heavy grades are encountered.

7th. OPEN DESIGN. Facilitates operation of both loading and unloading, lessening the time required and reducing the danger. At the same time, ample protection is provided for Brake Rigging, eliminating danger of being fouled by falling logs.

8th. INCREASED BUFFING CAPACITY. Connecting timbers forming backbone of 300 sq. in. cross section, which offers great resistance to buffing shocks.

Length over timber, 40 feet, can be furnished up to 56 feet. Length over all, 42 feet. Width over connecting timbers, 30 inches. Height to center of Coupler, 2 feet, 10 inches. Height to top of Bunk, 48 inches. Width of Bunk, optional, 9 feet or 10 feet. Bunk centers in illustration, 24 feet, but is optional with purchaser. M. C. B. Automatic Couplers. Westinghouse Air Brakes. Inside Hung Metal Brake Beams. Standard Diamond Arch Bar Truck Frame. Metal Truck Bolster. Seattle Car Manufacturing Co.'s Patent Cast Steel Body Bolster in combination with Patent Cast Steel Bunks, riveted together, making solid section. Thirty-three inch Cast Iron Wheels, chilled tread, double plate. Steel Axles, 4½ × 8 inch Journals. Malleable Iron and Steel Castings used throughout. Draft Gear optional. (Twin Spring or tandem.) Bunks Cast Steel, Hercules Patent, equipped with Knight Patent Chock, the McLafferty Stake, or the Skookum Bunk. Weight, approximately 19,000 pounds. This Car is protected by U. S. Patents.

Owing to the original construction of Bunk and Bolster no part of the load is carried on the timber sills

Protected by U. S. Patents

Air-Equipped Connected Truck

The Most Practical Skeleton Logging Car on the Market. Equipped With U. S. Safety Appliances to Meet Interstate Commerce Commission Requirements.

This car has done more to make the name of the Seattle Car & Foundry Co. well known among the logging fraternity than any other single one of our products. We instituted their use on the Pacific Coast. They were designed to avoid many of the obvious disadvantages of flat cars and to add the element of safety to trucks without materially increasing cost.

The letter which follows, pictures better than we could, the reception and experience of the trade, from the view point of the actual operator.

NORTHWEST LUMBER COMPANY
Kerriston Mill
Superintendent's Office

Kerriston, Wash., July 19, 1913

Mr. F. W. Chriswell, Chief Engineer,
Seattle Car & Foundry Co.,
Seattle, Washington
Dear Sir:

Mr. Horton our Secretary has requested me to write you of our experience with the connected logging trucks which we have been using for the last three or four years.

In a general way I might classify this under two heads, construction and operation. 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. Due to the construction of these cars with their three sills as the only woodwork, we have found the cost of maintenance very little, perhaps due to a certain extent to the accessibility of the parts, which permit of a thorough inspection by simply walking past the car. In operating, we have found these cars exceptionally adapted to the hauling of logs, and during our four years experience do not recall an instance where the load has been spilled due to any fault of the bunk or blocks. Our cars, of which we have twenty-four in operation, are built on twenty-four foot truck centers with nine and ten foot bunks, and during the last year and a half we have lost but one log except through derailment. We find that these cars seemingly ride easier than the seven flat cars which we have in service, permit of a larger load and carry their loads to better advantage. These cars are easily loaded, and it is not uncommon that we haul nine and ten thousand feet to the car. Our loads will average between seven and eight thousand feet per car. All of the trainmen who have worked on these cars, and the loaders in the woods like them very much. 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.

Any further information which I may be able to give you and which you may desire, will be furnished with pleasure upon request.

Very truly yours,

GEO. N. PECK,

General Superintendent

This Letter is Typical of Dozens We Have Received

Old Style Standard Skeleton Car with Timber Bunk and Automatic Trip Pockets to Provide for the Use of High Stakes. Equipped With Air.

[List of Parts—Standard Car Equipment]

CASTINGS—

Give pattern number where possible in addition to list number.

  • 1 BUNK
  • 2 BUNK BRACKETS
  • 3 JOURNAL BOX
  • 4 JOURNAL BOX COVER
  • 5 JOURNAL BOX WEDGE
  • 6 COLUMNS
  • 7 COLUMN GUIDES
  • 8 JOURNAL BEARING
  • 9 BOLSTER FILLER
  • 10 CHAFING IRON
  • 11 BRAKE SHOES
  • 12 BRAKE WHEEL
  • 13 RATCHET
  • 14 PAWL
  • 15 TOP CENTER PLATE
  • 16 BOTTOM CENTER PLATE
  • 17 CHOCK BLOCK
  • 18 SIDE BEARINGS

FORGINGS—

  • 19 TOP ARCH BAR
  • 20 BOTTOM ARCH BAR
  • 21 TIE BAR
  • 22 TRUCK BOLSTER
  • 23 SPRING PLANK
  • 24 INTERMEDIATE LEVER
  • 25 CYLINDER LEVER
  • 26 LIVE LEVER
  • 27 DEAD LEVER
  • 28 DEAD LEVER STOP
  • 29 DEAD LEVER STOP BRACKET
  • 30 INTERMEDIATE LEVER FULCRUM
  • 31 PUSH ROD
  • 32 CENTER CONNECTION
  • 33 TOP CONNECTION
  • 34 BOTTOM CONNECTION
  • 35 HAND CONNECTION
  • 36 CONNECTION PINS
  • 37 LEVER CARRIERS
  • 38 CYLINDER BRACKETS
  • 39 RESERVOIR BRACKETS
  • 40 RELEASE VALVE HANDLE
  • 41 PIPE CLIPS
  • 42 BRAKE STAFF
  • 43 BRAKE HANGER
  • 44 SAFETY HANGER
  • 45 GRAB HOOK AND CHAIN
  • 46 FOLLOWERS
  • 47 KNIGHT CHOCK BLOCK
  • 48 CHAIN FOR CAST CHOCK BLOCK
  • 49 CHAIN FOR "KNIGHT" CHOCK
  • 50 TAIL STRAP
  • 51 CARRY IRON AND BRAKE STEP
  • 52 CARRY IRON
  • 53 STRIKING PLATE
  • 54 HAND CONNECTION BRACKET
  • 55 CENTER PIN
  • 56 CENTER PIN KEY
  • 57 UNCOUPLING LEVER
  • 58 UNCOUPLING LEVER BRACKET
  • 59 BRAKE SHOE KEY

AIR EQUIPMENT—

  • 60 AIR CYLINDER
  • 61 AIR RESERVOIR
  • 62 UNION
  • 63 STRAINER
  • 64 CUT-OUT COCK
  • 65 ANGLE COCK
  • 66 HOSE COUPLING
  • 67 RETAINER VALVE
  • 68 RELEASE VALVE
  • 69 TRIPLE VALVE
  • 70 TRAIN PIPE "B" END
  • 71 TRAIN PIPE "A" END
  • 72 NIPPLE
  • 73 RETAINER PIPE
  • 74 CROSS-OVER PIPE

LUMBER—

  • 75 CENTER SILL
  • 76 FILLER
  • 77 DUST GUARDS

SPECIALTIES—

  • 78 WHEELS
  • 79 AXLES
  • 80 TRUCK SPRINGS
  • 81 DRAFT SPRINGS
  • 82 COUPLER
  • 83 "HUNTOON" BRAKE BEAMS
  • 84 WASHERS
  • 85 BRAKE ROD JAWS
  • 86 PUSH ROD JAWS
  • 87 DRAFT LUG

[TRUCKS—Hercules, Snohomish and Skookum]

Business of Making Trucks is one of the Specialties in which we Acknowledge no Superior.

We Build Regular Stock Lines and to Special Requirements.

Speedy Delivery Guaranteed.

Seattle Car and Foundry Co.'s Trucks Are Made for Pacific Coast Conditions.

Over 7000 in Actual Use.

Write to Those Who Have Tried Them.

Lake Whatcom Logging Co.

Bellingham, Washington.

REFER TO OUR FILE NO
Mr. O. D. Colvin,
Vice Pres. & Mgr. Seattle Car Mfg. Co.,
Alaska Bldg.,
Seattle, Wash.
Dear Sir

Your Hercules logging trucks are the best car for heavy logging that I have seen and we are now buying no other. My experience dates back twenty-five years and I am familiar with the old N.P. trucks and G.N. trucks which when put out in '93 were the best trucks made, and also the trucks manufactured in Tacoma, Seattle and by ourselves. We have had them all more or less in our trains for the last ten years and have opportunities to observe them under all classes of service. We have had less repairs and less trouble on account of hot boxes with your cars than any others. Our cars are all equipped with the Knight chock block which we find very effective and safe.

Yours truly,

LAKE WHATCOM LOGGING COMPANY.
J J Donovan

JJD/FMB.

This letter is a good example of what practical loggers think of Seattle Car & Foundry Co. trucks and bunks

CODE
"Scochief"
Number 97

Our 1914 Truck

["Skookum Chief"]
(100,000 POUNDS CAPACITY. STRONGEST LOGGING TRUCK EVER BUILT.)

Deep-Throat Punch

The Skookum Chief, One-Piece Cast Steel Truck Frame is a radical departure from the old and well known designs and is a distinct step forward. The cast steel frame in locomotive tender construction and passenger car trucks has been widely used and is in favor. The use of cast steel has many advantages. The most economic distribution of metal is made possible, and greatest strength with least weight is the result. In a built-up frame there is always some weak point which is usually where the parts are bolted together. Bolts become loose and nuts are lost. A comparison of the Skookum Chief with any other truck cannot fail to show clearly its advantages in this respect. The Side Frame, End Frame, Draft Beams and Bolster being in ONE PIECE eliminates possibility of weakness where these parts are usually joined by bolts, and the sections of the various parts are so well proportioned that nothing short of a serious wreck could cause failure. The repairman would be almost unnecessary and the Truck would always be in commission, making it possible to handle the business of a camp with one or two sets of trucks less.

Equipment of Skookum Chief

Bunks—Hercules Cast Steel, either 9 or 10 feet.

Chocks—"Knight," "McLafferty," or "Skookum"

Wheels—33 inch Chilled Cast Iron.

Axles—Steel with 5 × 9 Journals.

Couplers—Automatic with bottom unlocking lever.

Brakes—Either Inside or Outside Hung Beams with Hand Wheel at side.

Capacity—The capacity of this truck is limited only by the axles. The frame will carry a 50% overload.

CODE
"Herksteel"
Number 127

Equipped with Knight Patent Chock Block and Cast Steel Bolster

[Hercules Logging Truck]
A STEEL TRUCK OF 80,000 CAPACITY THAT HAS CARRIED 120,000 SAFELY

Heavy Bar Shear

This is a steel frame truck, with cast steel bolster and bunk brace, and is here shown with structural bunk, but may be equipped with cast steel bunk of either the Hercules, McLafferty or Skookum patent, and also with steel draft beams, making an all steel truck.

33-inch Chilled Cast Iron Wheels and Steel Axles, with 4½ × 8 inch Journals. Height from rail to center of Drawbar, 25½ inches, and to top of Bunk, 40½ inches. Length over Draft Beams, 9 feet, 6 inches.

Automatic Couplers with Bottom Unlocking Attachments. Brake Shoes applied to all Wheels, with hand wheel at side or hand lever at end. Weight, approximately 18,000 pounds per set.

CODE
"Hercules"
Number 122

Equipped with Knight Patent Chock Block

Hercules Logging Truck
(MADE IN ANY CAPACITY FROM 40,000 TO 70,000 LBS. PER SET OF TRUCKS)

Designed for heavy service and has proved its efficiency in handling the long, heavy timbers of the Northwest.

Our Standard Class A Truck Number 122, as shown in cut, is equipped with Hercules Patent Bunk, 9 feet long, and Knight Patent Chock Block. At purchaser's option can furnish our Patent Cast Steel Bunk, in either 9 or 10-foot lengths, of Hercules, McLafferty or Skookum Patent.

33-inch Chilled Cast Iron Wheels and Axles with 4½ × 8-inch Journals. 28 or 24-inch wheels are optional.

Height from Rail to center of Drawbar, 2 feet, 1½ inches. Height from top of Rail to top of Bunk, 3 feet, 4½ inches. Length over Couplers, 12 feet.

Automatic Couplers with Side-Unlocking Lever and M. C. B. Standard Draft Spring. Cast Iron Link and Pin Drawbar can be substituted.

Brake Shoes applied to all wheels with hand wheels at side or hand lever at end.

Truck Frame is the Rigid Diamond Arch Bar type with Steel Channel Spring Plank.

Bolsters of Red Fir heavily trussed.

Weight approximately 17,000 pounds per set.

The above Bunk and Chock Blocks are covered by U. S. and Canadian Patents and are manufactured exclusively by Seattle Car & Foundry Co., Seattle, U. S. A.

CODE
"English"

To Couple with Standard Railway Equipment

[High Hercules Logging Truck]
Designed to Couple with Standard Railway Equipment. Two feet, ten inches from Rail to center of Coupler.
MADE IN CAPACITY OF 70,000 LBS. PER SET OF TRUCKS

This cut shows our Class G-2 Truck, No. 125, which is equipped with Hercules Patent Bunk 9 feet long and Knight Patent Chock Block.

Multiple Boring Mill

33-inch Chilled Cast Iron Wheels and Axles with 4½ × 8 inch Journals.

Height from top of Rail to top of Bunk, 4 feet.

Automatic Couplers with Side Unlocking Lever and M. C. B. Standard Draft Springs.

Brake Shoes applied to all wheels with hand wheel at side or lever at end.

Truck Frame is the Rigid Diamond Arch Bar Type with Springs under Bolster and Steel Channel Spring Plank.

Extra heavy Bolster of Red Fir, heavily trussed.

Special Equipment may be same as our Class A-2 Hercules Truck.

Length over all, 12 feet, 0 inches. Weight approximately 18,000 pounds per set.

[HERCULES LOGGING TRUCK]

[List of Parts]

Castings—

  • 1 JOURNAL BOX
  • 2 JOURNAL BOX COVER
  • 3 JOURNAL BRASS BEARINGS
  • 4 JOURNAL BOX WEDGE
  • 5 BOLSTER COLUMNS
  • 6 COLUMN GUIDE
  • 7 BOLSTER BOTTOM CENTER PLATE
  • 8 BOLSTER TOP CENTER PLATE
  • 9 INSIDE BOTTOM SIDE BEARING
  • 10 OUTSIDE BOTTOM SIDE BEARING
  • 11 TOP SIDE BEARING
  • 12 CAST IRON CHOCK BLOCK
  • 13 BUNK BRACE
  • 14 DRAW BAR
  • 15 DRAFT LUGS
  • 16 D B CHAFING IRONS
  • 17 BRAKE HEADS
  • 18 BRAKE SHOES
  • 19 BRAKE WHEEL
  • 20 BRAKE RATCHET
  • 21 BRAKE DRUM & RATCHET (for Hickey Brake)
  • 22 BRAKE PAWL
  • 23 BRAKE PAWL (for Hickey Brake)
  • 24 INSIDE BRAKE STAFF BEARING
  • 25 OUTSIDE BRAKE STAFF BEARING
  • 26 BRAKE BEAM FULCRUM
  • 27 JAW FOR BOTTOM CONN. ROD (2 hole)
  • 28 JAW FOR BOTTOM CONN. ROD (1 hole)

FORGINGS—

  • 29 TOP ARCH BAR
  • 30 BOTTOM ARCH BAR
  • 31 TIE BAR
  • 32 SPRING PLANK
  • 33 TOP END BAR
  • 34 BOTTOM END BAR
  • 35 HEEL BRACE
  • 36 FRAME CORNER GUSSET
  • 37 BOLSTER TRUSS ROD
  • 38 BOLSTER TRUSS ROD WASHER
  • 39 BOLSTER TRUSS ROD SADDLE
  • 40 BOLSTER END BAND
  • 41 BRAKE HANGER
  • 42 BRAKE HANGER CLIP
  • 43 BRAKE BEAM SAFETY HANGER
  • 44 BRAKE BEAM WASHER PLATE
  • 45 BRAKE BEAM END BAND
  • 46 BRAKE SHOE KEY
  • 47 BRAKE LIVE LEVER
  • 48 BRAKE DEAD LEVER
  • 49 DEAD LEVER STOP
  • 50 BOTTOM CONNECTION ROD
  • 51 HAND CONNECTION
  • 52 HAND CONNECTION CHAIN
  • 53 CONNECTION PINS
  • 54 BRAKE STAFF
  • 55 HICKEY BRAKE HANDLE
  • 56 CENTER PIN
  • 57 CENTER PIN KEY
  • 58 TOP MEMBER OF I-BEAM BUNK
  • 59 BOTTOM MEMBER OF I-BEAM BUNK
  • 60 KNIGHT CHOCK BLOCK
  • 61 KNIGHT CHOCK BLOCK CHAIN
  • 62 CAST IRON CHOCK CHAIN
  • 63 CAST CHOCK CHAIN U BOLT
  • 64 GRAB HOOK
  • 65 GRAB HOOK CHAIN
  • 67 GRAB HOOK CHAIN EYE BOLT
  • 68 BUNK STOP CHAIN
  • 69 BUNK STOP U-BOLT
  • 70 BUNK STOP U-RIVET
  • 71 BUNK BRACE ANCHOR
  • 72 BUNK BRACE CHAIN
  • 73 FOLLOWER PLATE
  • 74 FOLLOWER GUIDE
  • 75 DRAFT TIMBER TIE PLATE
  • 76 TAIL PIN
  • 77 TAIL PIN KEY
  • 78 COUPLING PIN
  • 79 COUPLING LINK
  • 80 CARRY IRON
  • 81 CARRY IRON & BRAKE STEP (for Hickey Brake)
  • 82 STRIKING PLATE

SPECIALTIES—

  • 83 TRUCK WHEELS
  • 84 AXLES
  • 85 TRUCK SPRING
  • 86 DRAFT SPRING

LUMBER—

  • 87 BOLSTER
  • 88 DRAFT TIMBER
  • 89 BRAKE BEAM

CODE
"A.Y.P."

Brakebeams, Inside or Outside Hung, Optional with Purchaser

Awarded Grand Prize at A. Y. P. Exposition

[All-Steel "Snohomish" Type Logging Truck]
(100,000 POUNDS CAPACITY)

To meet the demand for Trucks of heavier capacity, we are building All-Steel Trucks, which are fully illustrated in the cuts. This design is the result of a careful study of the prevailing practice in the large and up-to-date camps of the Northwest, with the aim of combining simplicity and strength with a minimum dead load. This Truck has been altered slightly to include all the latest improvements in logging truck construction, and was awarded the Grand Prize at the A. Y. P. Exposition.

Wheels, 33-inch Chilled Cast Iron, fitted on M. C. B. Standard Axles with 9 × 5-inch Journals. Automatic Couplers and Twin-Spring Draft Gear with M. C. B. Double-Coil Draft Spring. If desired, Link and Pin Drawbars can be substituted, as our pattern is interchangeable with Automatic Coupler. Journal Boxes are M. C. B. Standard. Bolster Steel Channels reinforced with Steel Cover Plates top and bottom. Draft Sills Steel Channels with Malleable Iron Draft Lugs riveted to same. Bolster and Draft Sills are securely tied together and braced with Steel Plates. Truck Frame of extra heavy Iron Bars, braced at corners with Gusset Plates, making it impossible for the frame to get out of square. Bunks, Hercules Patent with Knight Patent Chock. Bunks are equipped with metal brace as shown in illustration. Castings are of either Steel or Malleable Iron. Brake Shoes are applied to all Wheels and Brake Beams, either inside or outside hung, at purchaser's option. 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.

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. This truck is designed to couple with standard equipment, with a height of 2 feet, 10 inches to center of coupler and 4 feet, 0 inches to top of bunk. The Bolster is built up of two heavy Steel Channels reinforced with steel cover plates top and bottom securely riveted to channels. The Truck is equipped with Hercules Bunk and Knight Chock and is also fitted with Metal Bunk Brace.

The same general remarks apply to this truck as to Snohomish Truck No. 123. The frame is of heavy iron bars and the fir draft timbers have a sectional area of 144 square inches, which offers great resistance to buffing shocks.

Weight per set trucks, of 20,400 pounds.

CODE
"Snohomish"
Number 123

Without Chock Blocks

"Snohomish" Logging Truck

This truck is especially adapted to use on Logging Railroads, where an uneven track demands a flexible running gear and an extremely strong frame. These requirements are carried out in this design by placing the springs over the Journal Boxes and making the frame of extra heavy Iron Bars. The simplicity of the design also appeals to the operators, making it necessary to carry but few extra parts for repairs.

Arch Bar Gang

Bunk shown is made of straight grain Red Fir, reinforced with special heavy 12-inch I-Beam closely fitted on timber, but we recommend our Hercules Patent Bunk equipped with Knight Patent Chock, McLafferty Stake or Skookum Chock.

Either Automatic Couplers or Link and Pin Drawbars may be used, as our Link and Pin Drawbar is designed to be interchangeable with Automatic Coupler, the change being easily made at any time. Bolsters extra heavy Red Fir, strongly trussed. Draft Timbers, Red Fir. Draft Gear M. C. B. Standard with M. C. B. double coil Draft Springs. Truck springs, 70,000 lbs. capacity, heavy double coil.

Wheels 33-inch Chilled Cast Iron fitted on M. C. B. Axles with 4½ × 8 inch Journals. Cast Iron Journal Boxes with self-closing lids. Cast Iron Columns of heavy pattern. Brake Shoes applied to all wheels with hand wheel at side. Any style of Brake Shaft can be furnished.

When required the Truck is decked over between wheels and draft timbers and extending from end to end.

Length over all, 12 feet. Weight approximately, 18,000 pounds per set.

[SNOHOMISH LOGGING TRUCK]

[List of Parts]

CASTINGS—

  • 1 JOURNAL BEARING
  • 2 JOURNAL BOX
  • 3 JOURNAL BOX WEDGE
  • 4 JOURNAL BOX COVER
  • 5 COLUMNS
  • 6 SPRING CAP
  • 7 TOP CENTER PLATE
  • 8 BOTTOM CENTER PLATE
  • 9 OUTSIDE BOTTOM SIDE BEARING
  • 10 INSIDE BOTTOM SIDE BEARING
  • 11 OUTSIDE TOP SIDE BEARING
  • 12 INSIDE TOP SIDE BEARING
  • 13 CAST IRON CHOCK BLOCK
  • 14 BUNK BRACE
  • 15 COUPLER
  • 16 DRAFT LUGS
  • 17 CHAFING IRONS
  • 18 ARCH BAR FILLERS
  • 19 BRAKE SHOES
  • 20 BRAKE HEADS
  • 21 BRAKE WHEEL
  • 22 BRAKE RATCHET
  • 23 BRAKE PAWL
  • 24 OUTSIDE BRAKE STAFF BEARING
  • 25 INSIDE BRAKE STAFF BEARING
  • 26 BRAKE BEAM FULCRUM
  • 27 BOTTOM CONN. JAW
  • 28 HAND CONN. JAW

FORGINGS—

  • 29 TOP ARCH BAR
  • 30 BOTTOM ARCH BAR
  • 31 TIE BAR
  • 32 TOP END BAR
  • 33 BOTTOM END BAR
  • 34 BOLSTER TRUSS ROD
  • 35 BOLSTER TRUSS ROD SADDLE
  • 36 BOLSTER BEARING PLATE
  • 37 BRAKE HANGER
  • 38 BRAKE HANGER CLIP
  • 39 BRAKE BEAM SAFETY HANGER
  • 40 BRAKE BEAM WASHER PLATE
  • 41 BRAKE BEAM END BAND
  • 42 BRAKE LIVE LEVER
  • 43 BRAKE DEAD LEVER
  • 44 DEAD LEVER STOP
  • 45 BOTTOM CONNECTION ROD
  • 46 HAND CONNECTION ROD
  • 47 HAND CONNECTION CHAIN
  • 48 BRAKE STAFF
  • 49 CONNECTION PIN
  • 50 CENTER PIN
  • 51 CENTER PIN KEY
  • 52 BRAKE SHOE KEY
  • 53 DRAFT YOKE
  • 54 FOLLOWER PLATE
  • 55 FOLLOWER GUIDE
  • 56 CARRY IRON
  • 57 STRIKING PLATE
  • 58 UNCOUPLING LEVER
  • 59 UNCOUPLING LEVER BRACKET
  • 60 BUNK STOP CHAIN
  • 61 BUNK STOP U-BOLT
  • 62 BOTTOM MEMBER OF BUNK
  • 63 TOP MEMBER OF BUNK
  • 64 KNIGHT CHOCK
  • 65 KNIGHT CHOCK CHAIN
  • 66 CAST CHOCK CHAIN
  • 67 CAST CHOCK CHAIN U-BOLT
  • 68 GRAB HOOK
  • 69 GRAB HOOK CHAIN
  • 70 GRAB HOOK EYEBOLT

SPECIALTIES—

  • 71 WHEELS
  • 72 AXLES
  • 73 PEDESTAL SPRING
  • 74 DRAFT SPRING

LUMBER—

  • 75 BOLSTER
  • 76 DRAFT TIMBER
  • 77 BRAKE BEAMS
  • 78 DUST GUARDS

CODE
"Columbia"
Number 122a

With Cast Steel Pedestals

["Columbia" Logging Truck]
THE NEW COLUMBIA, CAPACITY 80,000 PER SET

This Wood Frame Truck has been improved by the substitution of Cast Steel Pedestals in place of Cast Iron, and has eliminated the possibility of failure in this part, which has heretofore been the weak spot in this type of Logging Truck.

Hydraulic Wheel Press

Automatic Couplers and Standard Draft Springs have also been applied, and this together with the Cast Steel Bunk places this truck easily in the lead of all wood frame trucks.

28-inch Chilled Cast Iron wheels are used to keep a low center of gravity which is quite essential.

Steel Axles with 4½ × 8 Journals.

Brake Shoes applied to all wheels with hand wheels at side or hand lever at end.

Any type of Bunk and Chock made by us may be used on this truck.

CODE
"Columbia"
Number 122

With Hercules Bunk and Knight Chock

"Columbia" Logging Truck
CAPACITY 40,000, 60,000, 70,000 or 80,000 POUNDS

This design is adapted to camps where repairs to wood frames are more readily made than forged parts, there being few forgings used. All timber used in the construction of these trucks is straight-grain Red Fir.

Molding Machine

Wheels, 24, 28 or 33-inch Cast Iron, Double Plate Chilled Tread.

Axles, Steel with M. C. B. Standard Journals.

Heavy Cast Iron Pedestals with Double Coil Pedestal Springs.

Oil Boxes fitted with either Hewitt Self-Closing or M. C. B. top hung lids.

Hand Brake with Wood Brake Beams.

Couplers, Cast Iron Link and Pin. Spring Drawbar one end and Solid Drawbar at other end.

Equipped with our Hercules Patent Steel Bunk and Knight Patent Chock, McLafferty Stake or Skookum Chock.

Weight in 70,000-pounds capacity, approximately 16,000 lbs. per set. Height, 2 feet, 6½ inches to center of Draw Bar, with 28-inch wheels. Height, 3 feet, 11 inches to Top of Bunk.

CODE
"Rainier"
Number 201

"Rainier" Logging Truck

Capacity 100,000 Pounds

["Rainier" Logging Truck]

We are the first builders of Logging Equipment to depart from the practice of the last twenty years and produce a Logging Truck designed along practical and economic lines. Modern railroading has developed the "Cast Steel" Engine Frame, Tender Frame and Passenger Truck Frame. Wherever safety is required together with lightness and durability, Cast Steel has been introduced.

Following this modern plan we have constructed the "Rainier" All Cast Steel Truck of eight pieces where ordinarily several hundred are used.

Each Side Frame is in one piece taking the place of Top Arch Bar, Inverted Arch Bar, Tie Bar, Heel Brace, Truck Columns, and the many Bolts used to hold these parts together.

Each End Frame is in one piece taking the place of Top End Bar, Bottom End Bar, Striking Plate, Carry Iron, Corner Gussets, Brake Staff Brackets, and the numerous Bolts necessary to tie these parts together.

The Draft Beams are each in one piece, taking the place of Draft Timber, Draft Lugs, and the Bolts required to anchor them.

The use of Cast Steel permits of the most economic distribution of the metal, and the "Rainier" Truck is an example of what can be accomplished.

The Bolster and Bunk are similar to those used in the Hercules Trucks.

Springs are located under the Bolster to absorb shocks which would otherwise be transferred directly to the Truck Frame. The Springs over the Journal Boxes provide additional protection from shocks and also permit the wheels to hold the rails on an uneven track or at low joints.

Brake Beams are hung between the wheels and kept high enough to protect them in case of derailment.

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.