07-25-2011, 06:09 AM
The wood sheathed box car would probably have had some sort of internal bulkheads/slope sheets to prevent the car from being overloaded as well as to facilitate unloading via the bottom chutes.
The thing to remember with cement is that it is very heavy volume wise and must never get damp or wet as this totally ruins the cement.
I am surprised that cement was being handled in bulk form like that at the start of WW11, because I was reading somewhere about the building of the Interstate Highway system in the 50's and even when pouring concrete roads, bagged cement was used, with stacks of bags positioned regularly in front of the levelling machine.
I think that the Hoover Dam was also poured using bagged cement, mixed at the top of the dam site and delivered via flying fox type cranes, cant think of the correct name at the moment.
Mark
The thing to remember with cement is that it is very heavy volume wise and must never get damp or wet as this totally ruins the cement.
I am surprised that cement was being handled in bulk form like that at the start of WW11, because I was reading somewhere about the building of the Interstate Highway system in the 50's and even when pouring concrete roads, bagged cement was used, with stacks of bags positioned regularly in front of the levelling machine.
I think that the Hoover Dam was also poured using bagged cement, mixed at the top of the dam site and delivered via flying fox type cranes, cant think of the correct name at the moment.
Mark
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