[DOWNLOAD] "Snead v. Redland Aggregates Ltd. and Standard Railway Wagon Co." by United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Snead v. Redland Aggregates Ltd. and Standard Railway Wagon Co.
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Release Date : January 27, 1993
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 83 KB
Description
Edwin de Steiguer Snead, a plaintiff, is the chairman of Georgetown Railroad Co. ("Georgetown"), another plaintiff. In 1984, Snead and his brother Bill began designing and building a new type of railroad car that they called a "dump train," which consists of a group of open-topped railroad hopper cars joined together and to a transfer car. A conveyer belt runs under each hopper car to the transfer car. Because each hopper car has sloping side walls and gates in the bottom, bulk material can be discharged easily from the cars onto the conveyer belt, which then carries the material to the transfer car; the transfer car unloads material onto either side of the tracks. The advantage of using a dump train instead of other commercially-used train cars is that material can be unloaded without additional equipment or special facilities at the unloading site.