Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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rack-cleanei *or scrapers, which will, without difficulty, remove snow from therail* to the depth of 4 in., mile** the snow has been packed to thisdepth by the street traffic; and it may be well to say that scrapers,winch will remove even hard packed snow, are in use in Torontoand elsewhere. I ai li type of plow ha* il* place ami cannot economically be usedin service for which it i* nol adapted. It is as improper to attemptto remove 0 in. of snow with a rotary, a* to attempt to cm through2 ft. of snow with a rattan sweeper. In either case the feat may beaccomplished, bu( in neither case with greatest economy. Considering, hr*t. the removal of snow in cities, il may be saidthat experience in western New York ha* shown that, with theequipment at hand the work should be performed about as follows:On the appearance of a snow Storm, when the Streets are free fromsnow, light plows and sweepers should commence work, when abouttwo inches have fallen. If the storm continues and the snow falls
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WINTER SCENES ON THE ROCHESTER .v SODtJS HAY KV. high, and of providing electric power to operati bothand car-.In our town*, we cannot haul all the snow off the streets, becauseisibly handle; we therefore confine our effortsin thi- respect to the bu-in . cross-walks and junction point*. Along the remainder of the line* the snow i* piled up becurb and walk, or spread between track an.I curb, a the locaarrant. The snow we do remove 1- hauled away in sleighs, fighting equipI that all type* of machines for removing -now at fill. V. aire borfC plowi or walkaway* for leveling back banks of -now, thrown out by the plow*, and for cutting down dimand opening gutter* work winch cannot alwa track plow. In lot Or commi in I lei 1 mbi 1 and until April, and lorm, and where a thaw ind closeljfollowed bj old and unusually high wind-, the accumulation of mom fn torm almost tppeai mother. In thiuburban hue-, the high wind-, continuing foi da i hard andd, which defy ordinary now plowhilly. ■ dl ifted

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