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flat cars adapted for our purpose. Fig. 12 shows two 5-ton tractors 

 in action on top of one of the mountains. As many sections of the 

 country are very rough and highways several miles distant it seemed 

 that no other method of transporting the cable reels, wiiich weigh 



Fig. 11 — Narrow-Gage Mountain Railroad and Fiat Car 



Fig. 12 — Tractors Placing Cable Reels in Rough Country 



nearly 5,000 pounds, could possibly be used, and certainly no other 

 means would have been as satisfactory. Even with these methods 

 the cable reels could not always be delivered where desired and in 

 some cases it was necessary to pull the sections of cable through the 

 rings for a distance of nearly a mile to get them in place. 



