Show SOUTHERN PACIFIC IS contemplating MORE IMPROVE MENTS modern plant Is to be installed in this city the southern pacific yards are to bo equipped with a coaling plant as soon as the lucan cutoff cut off Is thrown open and terrace is abandoned as a coaling station there Is a modern plant now located at terrace which will be moved to ogden and will greatly facilitate the handling ot locomotives in the yards the change has been needed for some time but in view of abo fact that the terrace plant would soon be in disuse a new plant has not been ordered for ogden the plant is operated by buckets on an endless chain which run through bins into which the coal Is dropped from the cars the buckets carry the coal to bins located about twenty feet above from which it Is dropped into the tender of the engine it takes about one minute to coal an engine in this way whereas the present method takes about an hour and requires a greater bumper ot men the power used Is two 25 horsepower gasoline engines |