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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used on the North and West Side lines in Chicago with aview to determining the practicability of removing city garbageover the surface railways. The car is of all-steel construction,34 ft. long and subdivided into three equal sections, with a totalcarrying capacity of 20 yd. The sections are so shaped andarranged that one man with a pole can dump a heavily loadedsection by a movement entirely mechanical and without theuse of air cylinders. The car body will be mounted on two Pull-man No. 150 trucks, which are standard for the Chicago Rail-ways. No motors will be installed. Construction materials willbe handled in the car during the day, and at night the garbagewill be handled for the city. The subdivision of the car intothree sections greatly increases its utility for maintenance workbecause a different class of material can be handled in each sec-tion. The sections are watertight and wet concrete or garbagewill not leak on the pavement. March 12, 1910.) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 445
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Views Showing Snow and Rotary Plow on Otsego & Herkimer Railroad Four Days Before Thaw Commenced—TheSnow Bank Illustrated in the Left-Hand View Was 47 Ft. High. 446 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXXV. No. u. CAST-IRON AND STEEL WHEELS DISCUSSED ATHARTFORD Upon invitation of the Connecticut Company, F. A. Beebe,general superintendent of the Griffin Wheel Company, Chicago,111., gave an interesting talk on cast-iron and steel wheels onMonday, March 7, at the Hartford shops in the presence of over50 superintendents, master mechanics and shop foremen. Mr.Beebes paper was prepared along rather novel lines, as it wascomposed principally of answers to practical questions sub-mitted to him in advance. These questions had been gatheredfrom the men and arranged in order for Mr. Beebes replies byA. Blanchard, superintendent of the Hartford shops. Mr.Blanchard also presided at the meeting and explained that theinvitation to Mr. Beebe was the result of a desire for furtherenlightenment on w

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