Your Hercules logging trucks are the best car for heavy logging
that I have seen and we are now buying no other. My experience
dates back twenty-five years and I am familiar with the old N.P.
trucks and G.N. trucks which when put out in '93 were the best
trucks made, and also the trucks manufactured in Tacoma, Seattle
and by ourselves. We have had them all more or less in our trains
for the last ten years and have opportunities to observe them under
all classes of service. We have had less repairs and less trouble
on account of hot boxes with your cars than any others. Our cars
are all equipped with the Knight chock block which we find very
effective and safe.
Yours truly,
LAKE WHATCOM LOGGING COMPANY.
~J J Donovan~
JJD/FMB.
This letter is a good example of what practical loggers think of
Seattle Car & Foundry Co. trucks and bunks.
[Sidenote: _CODE
"Scochief"
Number 97_]
=Our 1914 Truck=
[Illustration]
"Skookum Chief"
(100,000 POUNDS CAPACITY. STRONGEST LOGGING TRUCK EVER BUILT.)
[Illustration: Deep-Throat Punch]
The Skookum Chief, One-Piece Cast Steel Truck Frame is a radical
departure from the old and well known designs and is a distinct step
forward. The cast steel frame in locomotive tender construction and
passenger car trucks has been widely used and is in favor. The use
of cast steel has many advantages. The most economic distribution of
metal is made possible, and greatest strength with least weight is
the result. In a built-up frame there is always some weak point which
is usually where the parts are bolted together. Bolts become loose
and nuts are lost. A comparison of the Skookum Chief with any other
truck cannot fail to show clearly its advantages in this respect. The
Side Frame, End Frame, Draft Beams and Bolster being in ONE PIECE
eliminates possibility of weakness where these parts are usually
joined by bolts, and the sections of the various parts are so well
proportioned that nothing short of a serious wreck could cause failure.
The repairman would be almost unnecessary and the Truck would always be
in commission, making it possible to handle the business of a camp with
one or two sets of trucks less.