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: 4 eee ctical Ways to Cut EiCosts in Carqo Handling , Live Conducted by H.E.STOCKER me Proper Facilities A\id Freight Interchange Between Rail and \Water Carriers sey has extensive facilities for in- terchange of freight between rail and water at Jersey City, opposite the lower end of Manhattan island. There are 10 piers. Five are open piers with surface tracks. Two are covered piers for handling freight to and from lighters. There are two coal piers, one of the pocket type op- erated by a private company who leases the pier from the railroad, and one a pier equipped with two car dumpers for transferring coal from railroad cars to vessels. Five float bridges are provided for switching railroad ears to and from ear floats which distribute cars through New York harbor. These marine facilities are backed up with extensive yards with a capacity of 20,000 cars. Special equipment for handling Ts Central Railroad of New Jer- 28 By H. E. Stocker scrap iron, steel, ore, pig iron, bulk cement and coal is provided to give good service to the patrons of the railroad and to reduce handling costs. Cement Handling Plant The cement handling plant consists of two units for handling bulk ce- ment from roofed hopper cars to barges. There is a watertight car shed in which there is a hopper lo- cated under the railroad track. Two serew conveyors carry the cement to two vertical bucket conveyors which elevate the cement 45 feet above the deck of the dock. From this point the cement moves by gravity through a circular chute into the barge. The chute is adjustable so that the cement may be loaded at any stage of the tide. The cement track has a storage ca- A Modern equip- ment for hand- ling bulk ce- ment from roofed gondola cars to barge at the Jersey City terminals of the Central railroad of New Jersey ® MARINE REVIEwW—February, 1935 pacity of 18 loaded cars which are fed to and from the hopper by an elec- tric winch. lEarly first morning de- livery is accomplished from cement mills located on the Central Railroad of New Jersey, Reading and connec- tions, Locomotive cranes of the railroad are used at Pier 7 for handling large quantities of scrap iron and steel. This is an open pier 1450 feet by 60 feet and has four surface tracks, The two tracks on the south side have two double crossovers to facilitate switching, Steamers are loaded on both sides of the pier, both from lighters and from gondola cars. Recently when the author visited this pier, three steamers were loading scrap, two on one side of the pier and one on the other. All three steamers were breasted away from the pier with a lighter loaded with scrap and a float- ing crane placed between the ship and the pier, An ocean steamer was loading into hatches one and two from light- ers placed as described above. The slings, large steel pans open at one end, were loaded on the lighter with an electric magnet operated by two locomotive cranes located on _ the track running down the pier close to the stringpiece. These cranes ob- tained the electricity for the magnets through cables leading from gasoline motor generator set located on a flat car hauled by one of the cranes. The cable to the crane not hauling the