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Updated: May 19, 2025
She's a nautical disgrace and carries three hundred thousand feet of lumber runs into the dogholes on the Mendocino Coast and takes in cargo on a trolley running from the top of the cliff to the masthead. It'll be your job to get out in a small boat to pick up the moorings; and that'll be no picnic in the wintertime, because you lie just outside the edge of the breakers.
A very large percentage of this is of yellow or southern hard pine, of which several billion feet a year are used. An almost equal amount is used for hewn cross-ties for railroads and trolley lines. Many sawed cross-ties are included in the item of lumber. The hewed cross-ties are made from young oak-trees, or from hard-pine, cedar and chestnut.
"And leave all this," he said incredulously, "for trolley rides and Forest Park and and me?" He stopped in the garden path and looked upon the picture she made standing in the sunlight against the blazing borders, her wide hat casting a shadow on her face. And the smile which she had known so well since childhood, indulgent, quizzical, with a touch of sadness, was in his eyes.
And with such a contract as you have been offered " "Bless my bootsoles!" ejaculated Mr. Damon, getting up and tramping about the room in his excitement. "I thought the trolley cars that run between Shopton and Waterfield were about the fastest things on rails." "Not much. The trolley car is a narrow and prescribed manner of using electricity for motive power.
The system will be understood from figure 77, where L is the overhead conductor joined to the positive pole of the dynamo or generator in the power house, and C is a rolling contact or trolley wheel travelling with the car and connected by the wire W to an electric motor M under the car, and geared to the axles.
Near by was a bakery, and there the lads got some coffee and rolls which tasted fine. When they finished their simple meal a trolley came past and they ran to catch it. So did the man who had been following them, but this person bore no resemblance to the spruce little detective who had wanted to arrest the boys. "A couple of hours now and we'll be back at the cabin," spoke Mark.
"It's a long way to go, even when you pass up the trolley and make a single big bolt by train. And it leads through an industrial region that is mighty unprepossessing little beauty until almost the end. And even when you get there, it may all seem a slight and simple affair for the time and trouble taken unless you really like Nature.
One day we'll have trolley cars running along the shores of the cove to bring the workers in to the mill. It'll be like a veritable Atlantic City. Oh, it's a great big dream. There's nothing amiss. No." "Only the Lizzie getting in." Bat was without apparent appreciation. He was thinking only of the message they had received, and the threat it contained.
"But it does seem to me that if you put the right kind of a battery into an automobile, it could scoot along pretty lively. Look what speed a trolley car can make." "Yes, Tom, but there again they get their power from an overhead wire." "Some of them don't. There's a new storage battery been invented by a New Jersey man, which does as well as the third rail or the overhead wire.
"Well, Mis' Tooker says the trolley goes right into Pelton, and she gave me a letter to a friend of hers there who'll take us in for the night " The doctor interrupted with an intimation of another patient to be visited, and they bade farewell to the grateful young couple and started away.
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