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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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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egativebooster would be needed, unless it were desired to reduce the fallof pressure for economical reasons. In this case it would dependentirely upon the length of the return feeder, as to whether itwould be better to add to its cross section, or to use a negativebooster. In the majority of cases the latter would probably provethe better way. If the ventilation of this subject by the Incorporated MunicipalElectrical Association should result in a modification of the Boardof Trade regulations, then this short paper will not have been■-vritten in vain. 178 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL (Vol. XVIIL No. 6. New Fender in St. Louis Experiments were made last week by officials of the St. LouisTransit Company with a street-car fender invented by CharlesHofmeister, of St. Louis. The fender weighs lOO lbs. and is constructed of steel bars andwire netting. It is operated by the motormans foot and seemscapable of lifting a man, woman or child uninjured off the track, nomatter how fast the car is run.
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NEW TYPE OF FENDER The fender was placed on an Olive Street car and given an ex-haustive trial on a dummy man made of sand and sawdust anddressed in overalls and a jumper. The dummy weighed 200 lbs.,a dead weight, said to equal in obstructing power a man weighing350 lbs. Running at 10 miles an hour the car struck the dummyand the new fender picked it up time after time. In no instancewas the dummy knocked from the tracks or rolled under thewheels. It was struck while standing up, lying down or whenplaced on hands and knees. After each trial the dummy was foundlying in the curved wire netting of the fender. The fender stands 9 ins. from the ground while the car is run-ning. When the motorman sees, a person on the track he willtouch a spring placed on the bottom of the front platform; imme-diately the fender falls till it touches the track. In this positionthree curved steel bars sustain its weight and the same springthat formerly supported it 9 ins. above the track holds it level witht

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