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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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PLAN OF LARGE PLOW. SHOWING PECULIAR CONSTRUCTION OF ENDS to drift back again immediately after the passing of the plow.The experiment was made, therefore, with the new piece ofapparatus to throw the snow from the east track directly ontothe other track by the nose of the plow and to throw it to thewest side of the other track by the wing. This, of course,necessitated the use of both tracks and the stopping of the plowwhen a car was passing in the opposite direction, so that thewing could be swung back against the side of the plow. Theexperiment was eminently successful, however, and the plowshown in detail in the accompanying reproduced drawings wasconstructed. The front faces of this plow both slope towardthe same point, that is, one side of the underframing is con-
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PAKTIAL SECITON OV LARGE PLOW, SHOWING l.llTIXG MECHANISM are securely fastened to the sills by heavy angle plates, and theframe is thoroughly braced throughout by heavy cross sills and;^-in. tie-rods. The cab is a little bit longer than the shorterside of the plow, as shown in the plan. The width of the cabis 6 ft. 4 ins. over all, and the height from the bottom of theside sills to the top of the roof is 7 ft. 10 ins. There are a num-ber of large windows in the body, the front of which is beveledoff similar to a vestibule; and as all the motor resistances areplaced within, the men operating the plow are in no wise un-comfortable. The mechanism for operating the different noses, wings, etc.,is extremely simple and efficient, although it is necessary to have considerable of it, as the partsare so heavy that it would be im-possible to operate them withoutsome mechanical means. In ad-dition to the chains which run fromthe end of the wing to the two endsof the plow, and by which the wingi

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