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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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nd of the Adamantine worked up this way on T-rail frogsand switches using 60-lb. rail. A most interesting feature, both byits suggestiveness and by its relation to export trade, was that ofthe steel ties to be bedded in cement and intended specially foruse on tropical roads, where the conditions are adverse to lon-gevity in wood. With the tie were shown also the drop forged steelbrackets used in the work. This style of construction will go onthe Sao Paulo (Brazil) road, and is in requisition also for Aus-tralia. THE MGUIRE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, of Chi-cago, had, as usual, a very fine, comprehensive and complete ex-hibit, both within Tattersalls and outside, and was representedby a large staff, at the head of which were W. A. McGuire, presi-dent; W. J. Cooke, vice-president; W. P. McGuire, and E. E. Cook,superintendent. The exhibit in the hall covered a large spaceand comprised two No. 39 trucks, one elevated truck, one solidsteel Columbian truck, six ratchet brake handles and six new
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EXHIBIT OF EUGENE MUNSELL & CO. AND MICA INSULATOR CO- Columbian car heaters. A great deal of interest was taken by ex-perts and the public in the Ai suspension truck shown, bearinga sign to the effect that it was one of 120 ordered for the HavanaElectric Railway, and which is also of the type of which the NewSouth Wales Government has bought 230. Of the No. 39 and thesolid steel, the company also reported that it was exporting a num-ber to Germany. An interesting feature of this exhibit, and onewhich attracted great attention, was a pair of side bars of thetruck which had been twisted to form a spiral, then bent double.This showed the great ductility of the cast steel used and abilityto withstand fracture. Outside the hall, the company had a 14-ton November, 1899.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 831 electric snow sweeper, of which fifty-seven have already been soldthis year, fourteen of them going to one road in St. Louis. Inaddition to the material included within its exhibit proper, t

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