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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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ROTARY WITH REVOLVING BODY its axis, a chain and windlass being provided at the inside end,and a windlass, block and tackle at the outside end. Thesewindlasses are operated by vertical hand-wheels at the insideof the plow. The upper part of the nose is stationary but thelower part is made so as to slip up and down, the lower part ofthe sheet-iron with which the nose is faced overlapping thejoint, as shown in the drawing giving details of the nose.Ordinary steel rails are placed vertically behind the nose, whichserve as braces and guides and give the desired rigidity to themovable lower part. The nose is raised and lowered Ijy chains
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STANDARD ROTARY PLOW running over pulleys about the level of the cab floor and at-tached to windlasses at the ends of the cab. It is intended laterto add an auxiliary wing on the end of the nose, as shown in thefront view of the details of the nose. This wing has not yet beenplaced in position, although the shaft upon which it will behinged may be seen in the general view of the car. Some ofthe other plows on the system are equipped with wings of this description, and are giving excellent service in clearing thedevil strip between the tracks, which in Buffalo is somewhatnarrower than is the ordinary practice. The plow is equippedwith four General Electric 57 motors and Christensen airbrakes. Although, of course, this type of plow has been designedespecially for use on the interurban lines near Buffalo, itsadoption might well be made on other roads. It is intendedespecially for clearing the tracks of snow where the wind comesfrom one direction only, as is the case in Buffalo. But mosto

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