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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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last year, and whichproved so successful that a more perfect model was made forthis seasons operation. A plow was made last year consistingof little more than a flat car, with a nose at each end sloping atopposite angles and a long vane near the middle which couldbe swung out to a considerable distance at the side. Very little I March 28, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 479 protection was afforded the operators of this plow, only a shieldbeing provided in front of the motorman. The prevailing windin Buffalo is toward the Niagara River and the lake, that is aneast wind, and it was found that in operating a plow whichthrew the snow to the right in going north it was very liable siderably longer than the other side, the angle of the faces beingabout 4^ degs. On the longest side the plow is 34 ft. 10 ins.long, and on the shorter one it is 22 ft. 2 ins. long. The under-framing is made of four heavy sills, the outside sills beingins. X II ins., and the center sills 6 ins. x 7^ ins. The ends
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SIDE ELEVATION OF LARGE PLOW

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