Scouring As Employed on the Water 



To avoid making passengers change cars in 

 order to cross Suisun Bay, Oakland, Cal., 

 a railway company operating between Oak- 

 land and Sacramento transports its trains, 

 loaded with passengers, across the bay on a 

 gasoline-engine driven ferry (illustration 

 on the left continued from preceding 

 page). The car ferry is known as the 

 Ramon. It has carrying capacity for six 

 loaded passenger trains or eight freight trains 



Below: A continuation of the picture of a 

 floating pipe-line used by the engineer corps 

 for dredging channels and harbors. The 

 dredge draws the sediment from the bottom, 

 sucks it into the pipe-line and then pumps 

 it through the line to the point of discharge 

 which is miles out at sea. The average 

 length of the pipe-lines is twelve hundred 

 feet. The pontoons are designed to offer a 

 minimum resistance to waves and tides 



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