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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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incipal dry goods house here, and is also engaged as di-rector in several other large institutions. William H. Miller, whois a brother of the vice-president, is manager of the T. A. Chap-man Company, and has been elected secretary and treasurer of theColumbia Construction Company. With this strong company it issafe to predict an excellent business future for this new concern. Hauling Freight Cars on a Narrow Gage Trolley Line The accompanying illustration shows the method of trans-ferring ordinary freight cars into the center of Geneva, Switzer-land, over the narrow gage tracks of the Geneva Electric RailwayCompany. Two special trucks are required for each freight car.These trucks are connected rigidly together by a girder, joiningthe centers of each bolster, and the standard gage freight cars arerun into place by means of an inclined track. It is stated that afreight car can be loaded on to these narrow gage trucks in twominutes, and can be taken down in five minutes. The car is held
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HAULING FREIGHT CARS ON NARROW GAGE TROLLEY LINE in position on the trucks by means of adjustable braces. The useof narrow gage roads is so uncommon in this country that the ap-plication of the method does not seem to have much importancehere in the form in which it. is used in Switzerland. It may, how-ever, oflfer a suggestion where the step or groove of the streetrailway rail is not high or deep enough to accommodate the M.C. B. flange of the steam railroad car. If freight cars, with theirloads, could be hauled directly to any point on an electric railwaytrack, and so avoid the transhipment of the freight and its haulageby wagons through the city streets, a great economy would result,and much delay, noise and other inconvenience and nuisance in-separable with the present method of the handling of freight wouldbe avoided. While not so desirable, of course, as the use of streetrailway rail, which would permit the haulage of the steam freightcars directly on the street railway tracks,

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