Identifier: streetrailwayrev02amer (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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ether centrallyat each end by means of a bridge bar. A centralcross-bridging of the lower frame, for supportingthe truck as shown in the engraving. Two pairs of track cleaners, a pair at each endof the truck, one over each rail, and each pairconnected together by a cross-bar, and jointed tothe truck frame. Each cleaner consisting of abeam, a scraper, arranged to fit and at an angleto the truck, and of a brush carried in rear of thescraper. Spring caps made in pairs, a pair arrangedupright on each corner portion of the truckframe, and an inverted pair attached to the underside of the car sill over the former pairs. Coil-cushionsprings, eight in number, arranged seated in the cups, forsupporting the car frame and car thereon. Side andend anchor bars arranged connecting the car frame withthe truck frame, as shown in the drawmgs. The syndicate of Philadelphia capitalists has boughtthe Findlay, (O.) road on Blanchard Avenue for $60,000.Wm. R. Carnahan is vice-president and general manager.
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THE CRIST MOTOR TRUCK. The adjustment is very easy, merely taking up or let-ting out a link in the chain, which is attached to a pin orhook in the pole or the cam. The pole sets in a socket and is held by a clamp which,can be removed by loosening one nut. The whole base is cast in one piece with the exceptionof the hooks to which the chains are attached and theclamps which holds the pole. The whole base weighsabout 100 pounds. The inventor is a practical railwa) man connected withone of the largest roads in the country. OLD DAN. AN accident happening to switchman Dan Collins atthe corner of Fifth and Broadway. Cincinnati, hasbrought to light the fact that Old Dan, as he isfamiliarly called, is the oldest employe of the Consolida-ted. The accident laid him off an hour or two for thefirst time in a long while. Dan has been with the Con-solidated since 1859. ^^^ °^^ ^ ^ °^ venerable ap-pearance with long hair and beard. He will soon beretired on pension. 362 SCENES ON THE SAN FRANCISCO

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