Lidgerwood Skidder Car

This car is of special construction and is built for the Lidgerwood Manufacturing Co. It is illustrated here to show the class of work our shops produce. It has an all steel frame and specially constructed truck, as shown in small cut. Hydraulic jacks are located on the four corners of the body to raise the car, so that trucks may be swiveled and the car set to one side of track.

CODE "Skidruck" Number 151

Skidder Car Truck

This truck is built to secure a very low center of gravity. It is accomplished by using specially designed pedestal and oil boxes, having a spring on each side of oil box.

The truck frame is of rigid construction, built of I beams, and flexibility is secured by using pedestals, equipped with springs.

CODE "Donkey" Number 155

Reinforced Steel Framed Flat

60 Ton Capacity

Capacity of Body, 120,000 pounds. Allowable load on one side Sill concentrated on 10 feet at Center, 60 tons. Center Sills are composed of Steel I-Beams and Side Sills are built up Steel Girders of Fishbelly type and sufficiently strong to carry a Donkey Engine mounted on a sled, and fully equipped with Wire Rope, Fuel and Water, and will carry this safely while the Donkey is being loaded or unloaded. The Trucks however are 80,000 capacity which is ample for special service where high speeds are not attained.

"Donkey" Flat Built for Twin Falls Logging Co.