The 'auto-trolley' system of electric traction applied to the haulage of goods in a German quarry.
There is scope for it also at sea; and if our canals are worth the cost of reconstruction on modern lines, electric haulage will be used there on the model of the canal haulage installations which exist here and there on the Continent.
Therefore the choice lay between electric traction and haulage by cables, compressed air, or some other innocuous system.
Motormen, trip-riders and drivers in charge of haulage trips passing through doors used as a means of directing the ventilation, shall see that such doors are closed promptly after the trip passes through.
When rope haulage is used, an enclosed light shall be carried on the front end of each train so hauled.
The trip-rider in charge of rope haulage trips shall see that the signal light, as provided for in this act, is in place and in proper condition before starting trip.
In fact, I imagine the haulage of the gravel and the slabs for the wall will cost nothing," Osborn replied.
Then, with trailer going back from station, I could beat him on the haulage up the dale.
Mr. Bell wishes to know if his tender for the Slate Company's haulage is approved," Hayes began.
This makes the haulage of full railway trucks easy, and, on the other hand, in the case of the canal makes necessary a great number of locks relatively to the mileage, with consequent slowness of transport.
In the early days of the railway system, rope-haulage was adopted on some of the main lines for working the trains on steep inclines near the principal terminal stations.
Rope-haulage on inclines is now very rarely met with, except at collieries and ironworks, where occasionally the rope may be seen so arranged that the loaded waggons descending pull up the empty waggons on the opposite or parallel line.
Under whatever system of haulage the acceleration of trains be obtained, the increased speed will call for increased precautions in the selection and proving of the materials to be used in such service.
A long lead adds materially to the cost and time of forming an embankment, as it not only necessitates a considerable length of service, or temporary permanent way, but also occupies much time in the haulage of the earth waggons.
The initial task would be the haulage of stores from Cape Evans to Hut Point, a distance of 13 miles.
We rigged three sledges for man-haulage and brought the seals about two miles, the sledging parties being guided among the ridges and pools by semaphore from the crow's-nest.
These men could proceed to lay out depots by man-haulage and make short journeys with the dogs, training them for the long early march in the following spring.
While the same amount of disturbance does take place in an adit, it is an easy matter to readjust track grades while continuing regular haulage operations.
In 1910 the Railway Conference Association started an agitation that the haulage rates paid were insufficient, and that by comparison with those paid for goods they were performing the work of the Post Office at a considerable loss.
Various agreements were made with the other railways, some of which claimed payment not for haulage but for the conveyance of bhangy parcels, and in some cases lump sum payments were made annually to cover all services.
If a special carriage was required in addition, then the haulage rate of 11/2 annas a mile would be charged, and the rate for special trains was fixed at Rs.
The question of haulage of postal vans and of payment for the carriage of mails was finally settled in connection with State Railways.
The whole question was soon merged in that of general haulage rates for postal vehicles, which is discussed in the chapter upon the Railway Mail Service.
A similar condition existed in the contract with the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, but the Companies contended that the conveyance of mails did not include the haulage of sorting carriages in which sorters were employed.
The practicability and dependability of highway haulage between neighboring cities has been demonstrated fully.
On the other hand, the truck owner would like to obtain a return load because the charge for it would reduce his own haulage cost.
To start with, the cost of haulage to the top would be enormous.
Moreover, since all the coal conveyors and electric haulage systems were a tangle of wreckage, the loaded cars had to be pushed by hand all the way along the underground galleries, to the bottom of the shaft.
The expenses included in the statement of cost of haulage include all working expenses, repairs, general management, and depreciation.
Large contracts for earthwork with horse haulage are carried on to the greatest advantage with the railway of 20 in.
It is calculated on the assumption that a tug could do 3,000 hours of work per annum, and this is taken as the unit, the time of actual haulage being counted as full time, and of stoppages as half time.
Contractor was asking for haulage tenders; he's having trouble among the sandhills and muskegs.
Think I'll take a haulage job on the new railroad, where there ought to be rough and risky work, and I'll leave this place to-night.
There's a pretty good haulage contract I could get, but it will take some financing, which is what brought me along; because I ought to see about it in the next few days.
They've been advertising for haulage tenders--there are a lot of piles and building logs they want brought in.
We sat talking for a while and I foolishly told him I meant to buy some horses and apply for a railroad haulage contract, from which he no doubt concluded I was carrying some money.
Defn: Act of hauling; as, the haulage of cars by an engine; charge for hauling.
The practicability and dependability of motor-truck haulage not only within cities but between neighboring cities have been demonstrated fully.
Very considerable quantities of merchandise and materials of all kinds are now being carried by trucks operated by private concerns in their own businesses and by motor express and haulage companies.
On the other hand, the truck owner would be equally glad to secure a return load because the charge made for hauling it would reduce his own haulage cost.
Now the same haulageby horses and carts in Great Britain would usually cost about 1s.
But, notwithstanding this easy mode of working the traffic, the cost of haulage is 3d.
Taking the minimum distance apart of two points, between which haulage may be supposed to be required, as one mile, the smallest and cheapest gauge as 15 in.
On this occasion a variety of experiments in haulage and shunting were shewn, and for part of each day two trains were run concurrently.
Compare this with some of our American examples of surplus haulage of fifty or sixty per cent!
As many lines could exist over one set of rails as there were traffic agreements for through haulage of freight between its terminal points.
And within the last year, the renewal of these interstate governmental railway pools in Germany has provided for a reduction of excessive haulage to ten per cent.
It recognizes that railway charges should be proportioned to the length of haul, so far as actual costs of haulage are concerned; but it first eliminates those constant elements in cost which do not vary with distance.
It is obvious that much of this transverse haulage would be impossible wherever the lateral railway lines traverse different zones of rates.
Each ton, both of old and of new traffic, beyond the haulage capacity of the locomotives then in service, is equally responsible for the expense of new equipment purchased.
Ten dollars a ton per hundred miles for cost of haulage by road, necessarily imposed a severe restriction upon the extension of markets.
Obviously wages, cost of locomotive power, and cost of haulage generally are not four times as much in the case of a train which has run a hundred miles as in one which has run twenty-five.
Harding might have simplified his task by buying sawed lumber, but the long railroad haulagemade it expensive, and he never shrank from labor which led to economy.
The rope-haulage pattern has its drawbacks, but the machine we're using won't be on the market long.
Near the bottom of the shaft, branches are taken off to supply light to the principal roadways and to the haulage engine-room, the main cables being carried into one of the sections of the mine a distance of half-a-mile.
They were then led to the haulage engine-room and into the workings, where they witnessed the effects of the light.
We do not know accurately how fast electrical haulage is replacing animal haulage underground, what progress the loading machine is making in relieving human backs of the labor of shoveling coal into cars.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "haulage" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
