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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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Trail Truck. Total shoe pressure on trail truck = 20,812 lbs. or89.98 % of total weight of No. 2 end.Total weight of No. 2 end = 23,150 lbs. Motor Truck. Total shoe pressure on motor truck = 37.184 lbs or100.04 % of total weight of No. I end.Total weight of No./ end = 37,/70/t>$. DIAGRAM OF BRAKE-SHOE PRESSURES AND TENSIONS IMPOSED UPON MEMBERS OF BRAKE-RIGGING, UPON ONE OFTHE STANDARD RECONSTRUCTED MOTOR CARS to withstand the heavy service. The best of the trucks in usehave been retained, however, and are being strengthened in allof the weaker points, so as to withstand the shocks of startingthe motors, etc. Many of the odd trucks that came into useupon the system have been discarded, and replaced by newand stronger ones. The Brooklyn Heights standard truck,built by the Peckham Manufacturing Company, which was ap-plied a year or so age to the 120 Kings County and Brooklyn
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DETAILS OF THE NEW STANDARD SELF-LUBRICATINGCENTER-PLATE (BODY HALF), ADOPTED TO PERMITINTERCHANGE ABILITY OF IRUCKS Union Elevated steam coaches in equipping them as motorcars, have been retained in that service with very few changes.The old steam coach trucks, which they replaced, are beingre-equipped for use under trail cars, and have, fortunately,enabled, by their uniformity of design, a standard type oftrailer truck to be worked out and adhered to. The accompanying drawing is typical of this truck recon-struction work, this one illustrating the changes that were madeupon a type of truck built by J. G. Brill & Company, which wasplaced in service upon the road in 1901. These trucks were de-signed for a much lighter service and slower speed than is nowin force, as at that time the traffic handled upon the elevated brackets are shown in heavy lines to indicate the constructionand relative locations. The channels are now bolted to massivelugs, which extend 12 ins. out from the bra

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