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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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r cars, and where thesecars have dark trimmings it is finished in copper bronze. Other-wise the case is finished in gold bronze. The heater is used on Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railway, Chi-cago & Joliet Railway, several of the new roads built by West-inghouse, Church, Kerr & Company, and on a number of otherhigh-speed interurban railways, Among the towns where heating plants have been installedaccording to this method are: La Fayette, Ind.; Elwood, Ind.;Peru, Ind.; Connorsville, Ind.; Galesburg, 111.; Coshocton, Ohio,and Mt. Vernon, 111. A plant is now being installed at Indian-apolis, 3000 ft. from the business center of the city. It is primarilyfor steam heating, but will have an electric light plant in ad-dition. IP 390 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXII. No. 9. GRADE BUILDING MACHINE An improved elevating grader has recently been put on themarket by the National Drill & Manufacturing Company, of Chica-go, 111., which claims that its grader possesses certain features
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FIG. 1.—ELEVATING GRADER which overcome many of the difficulties encountered in the oper-ation of machinery of this class. Those who are familiar with elevating graders in general, areaware that heretofore the entire draft of the plow has been broughteither directly or indirectly on to the machine. This, ofcourse, has been a drawback to its successful operation inmany classes of soil, and has necessitated the expenditureof more power than should really be required to movethe amount of earth handled. The National elevating grader, as shown in Fig. 1,overcomes this difficulty. The draft of the plow itself iscarrried direct on the evener. being transmitted by a heavydraft chain which passes the king bolt and is hooked to theplow standard. This chain is intercepted in front of theelevator by a spreader bar, which can be raised or low-ered as the conditions require, thus regulating the angleof the pitch, assumed by the plow point. This is an im-portant feature, particularly when plowing

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