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Identifier: streetrailwayjo181901newy (find matches)
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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d. The carbodies used in this interurban service were described in theStreet Railway Journal of Dec. i, 1900. SHOP AND SHOP PRACTICE In the operation of heavy interurban cars the introduc-tion of changes in shop practice from that common withthe light city and suburban cars is, of course, advisable, will be 500 ft. X 135 ft., nine tracks wide. These trackswill run clear through from one end of the shop to theother, so that entrance can be had from the main line toeither end of the shop. Two tracks will be devoted toerecting purposes. The plan Mr. Hamlin contemplates for removing thetrucks is of special interest. In one of the repair-shoptracks will be a section of track the length of a truck, whichcan be lowered into a pit. This section will be raised andlowered by compressed air, with an air piston under eachcorner, and all four air pistons controlled by a regular air-I/rake engineers valve. When not in operation, the plat-form on which the short section of track is laid will rest on
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FIG. 6.—STANDARD INTERURBAN CAR removable timbers. When a truck is to be removed froma car, the car will be placed so that the truck to be removedwill be run over the platform track; the platform will thenbe raised slightly by means of compressed air, and support-ing timbers will be placed across underneath the car body.The timbers which supported the platform when it was atrest will then be taken out, and the*platform with the truckon it will be lowered part way. The motor leads can thenbe disconnected. The platform will then be lowered to thelevel of the pit floors. In the pit is to be a track of standardgage, and there will be room in the pit on each side of theplatform track for a truck. When the platform with thetruck upon it is lowered to the pit, the truck to be repairedwill be run off one end of the platform, and a new truck 824 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVIIL No. 23. to replace it will be in readiness at the other end of theplatform. As soon as the old truck is run off

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo181901newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:862
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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