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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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he water may be cut down to the thinnestvolume, closed off entirely or directed upon any part of theroadway from a point between the rails to a distance of 50 ft.outside of the rail. If it is desirable not to change the ad-justment of the sprinkling head, such as at street crossings,or when passing vehicles, the water may be instantly cut offby the gate valves. The tanks of the Milan cars have acapacity of 2480 gals., and measure 6 ft. 6 ins. x 10 ft. Thecar measures 16 ft. 6 ins. over the end sills, and without truckmotors weighs about 16,000 lbs. The cars are mounted onBrill No. 7 trucks. -^^^ LOCOMOTIVE CRANES FOR RAILWAY COMPANIES The use of locomotive cranes for coal handling has becomequite common on a number of American steam railroads, butthey can also be used on electric railways where large quan-tities of heavy freight are handled, for coaling power plants,wrecking purposes, etc. These machines are built for serviceon a standard gage track, which allows them to be hauled any
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LOCOMOTIVE CRANE USED FOR ERECTING A SMOKESTACK distance, and, if necessary, they can do the switching of anumber of loaded freight cars at one time. An interesting example of what can be done with a loco-motive crane may be noted by referring to the accompanying-illustration, which shows a No. 2 crane, made by the Brown-ing Engineering Company, of Cleveland, placing a 4j/-tonsection on the top of a power-house smokestack at 25-ft.radius, making the total height of the complete stack 100 ft.The long-boom arrangement was fitted up especially for theoccasion by fastening a heavy 40-ft. timber on the 65-ft. ironboom, allowing 10 ft. for lap. June 2, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 877 LEGAL DEPARTMENT* THREE-CORNERED FIGHTS It has been often explained in this place that street cars,drivers of vehicles, equestrians and pedestrians in generalhave concurrent rights to use the public streets and the streetcrossings in a city. In a certain sense, a street railway com-panys right is preferentia

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