Identifier: electricrailway351910newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Device for Cutting Bar Iron at the top to mesh with the ratchet lever. Hence when thelatter is pulled over in either direction, the dies are made tobear against the bar and cut it. The base of this combinationcutter consists of an old compromise rail-joint. The platesfor the bar-cutter portion were made from abandoned brake-beams, while a discarded piece of trolley pole tubing answers asa sleeving to increase the leverage. AN UNUSUAL TRAP DOOR LIFT INSTALLED INRICHMOND CARS Many motor trap doors are raised either by means of a ringfastened to the floor in a depression made by cutting away aportion of the floor strips or by placing the top of a lift yokebetween the adjacent strips, which have been beveled for the
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Richmond Trap Door Lift hand. Both of these methods are open to the objection thatpeople with high-heeled shoes, particularly women, may tripin these holes, and thus find an excuse for injury claims. Thispossibility is avoided by the design of trap-door lift devised bythe mechanical department of the Virginia Railway & PowerCompany. This method is shown in the accompanying drawing.Enough of one strip is cut away over each trap door for theinsertion of a piece of cast iron 49/16 in. long. This castingis exactly as wide as the strip and flush with the rest of thefloor. It is made as an inverted U. The rest of the lift con-sisits of J^-in. wrought-iron rods threaded into the top pieceas shown. The usual space between the strips is ample for theinsertion of the fingers without requiring any depressions inthe floor. . WRECKING TRUCK USED IN PITTSBURGH For pulling in cars with broken wheels or axles the PittsburghRailways Company uses the low truck shown in the accompany-ing engraving.

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