Identifier: streetrailwayjo181901newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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the result that there is considerable strain on the car bodyand working of the joints. Although this may not be no-ticeable at first, it is sure to cause badly fitting sash andother trouble in time. FIG. 13.—MOTOR FOR SYNCHRONIZING ONENGINE GOVERNOR SPRING tremely convenient, especially where cars are cleaned insmall local shops, away from the main or general repairshop. It is, of course, usually necessary to run the com-pressor on the car while the cleaning is going on, as thestorage reservoir is not of sufficient capacity to supply airfor cleaning for a great length of time. Under the center of each cat* is a tool box, in which iscarried tools for use in emergencies. As the distances areso great, it is very desirable that train crews have at theirdisposal means of getting a car on the track or temporarilyrej^airing the trolley or triicks. The tools carried in thebox consist of a heavy hog rope, a long coupling link, 5 ins. December 7, igoi.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 825 O Majciiica
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MAP OF THE UNION TRACTION CO.OF INDIANA Mileage i3sr the various cities 56 Miles BETWEEN cities AS BELOW ANDERSON to INI)l7VNA)>OLTS 30 •• MAHION 34 MUNCIE 17 ALEXANDRIA to ELWOOD -10 TOTAL, 153 Miles. O, indicates sub-stations. 826 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVIII. No. 23. long, a standard Van Dorn coupling link, a pair of wreck-ing frogs for derailed cars, and a pair of trolley pick-ups.The latter consist simply of tongs with wooden handles soarranged that the trolley wire can be picked up with them,and they can then be tied together to keep the wire clearof the ground until the repair car arrives. The tool box and the tools enumerated, as well as someother things carried by each car, is illustrated in Fig. 9. Compressed air is also used for feeding sand to the railsfrom the sand boxes. The sand box is placed directly onthe truck frame, so as to spring with the wheels. The com-pressed air from the motormans valve is taken to thesand box by a simple rubber hose. The sand bo

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