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The name Lidgerwood has long been familiar to coffee planters.
All About Coffee 1909
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Most of the cars Roosevelt saw were wooden flat cars that were used in conjunction with a rather crude but amazingly effective unloading device, the Lidgerwood system, as it was called.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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Most of the cars Roosevelt saw were wooden flat cars that were used in conjunction with a rather crude but amazingly effective unloading device, the Lidgerwood system, as it was called.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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At each dump was another yardmaster who reported the arrivals and departures of trains and his “readiness for spoil,” who ordered the distribution of loaded trains to the several dumping tracks, and who, in addition, directed the movements of the Lidgerwood unloaders as well as two additional pieces of equipment that had since come into use: the dirt spreader and the track shifter.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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At each dump was another yardmaster who reported the arrivals and departures of trains and his “readiness for spoil,” who ordered the distribution of loaded trains to the several dumping tracks, and who, in addition, directed the movements of the Lidgerwood unloaders as well as two additional pieces of equipment that had since come into use: the dirt spreader and the track shifter.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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In addition, a number of stiff-leg derricks were set up along the open-cut section, and were operated by Lidgerwood or Lambert air hoisting engines, or by electric motors, as circumstances dictated.
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Lidgerwood of New York City in 1890, show the steam cylinder to have had an inside diameter of 40-3/8 inches and a 5-foot stroke.
The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 Howard Irving Chapelle
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I scrambled over tenders and quarter-miles of "Lidgerwood flats" piled high with broken rock and earth, to scream at the
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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He would have thought so indeed could he have spent a day at Corozal and watched the unbroken deafening procession of dirt-trains scream by on their way to the Pacific, -- straining Moguls dragging a furlong of "Lidgerwood flats," swaying
Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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Lidgerwood, American chargé d'affaires at Rio de Janeiro, was granted an
All About Coffee 1909
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