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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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encein the amount of clearance and the amount of pavement was extended to Mr. Ryder and the other members ofthe committee and to the manufacturers for the workwhich had been done in bringing the information on thesubject up to the present state. The subject was con-tinued with the wav committee for 1920. A Heavy-Duty Interurban Snow Plow A Nose Plow Built by Indiana Line, Equipped with Air and Designed for Operation with Locomotive By M. S. Ferguson Master Mechanic Indiana Railways & Light Company, Kokomo AS IT IS essential that the lines be kept open atjTLall times in order properly to handle the com-paratively heavy passenger traffic and the constantlyincreasing freight business, the operating directors ofthe Indiana Railways & Light Company recently decidedto add a new snow plow to the snow-fighting equipmentof the road. The lines of the company are all on private right-of-way except through a few small towns. In thesethe tracks are paved with brick and there is, therefore,
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NEW HEAVY DUTY SNOW PLOW, DESIGNED AND BUILT BY INDIANA INTERURBAN LINE to be removed. If it is borne in mind that both theswitch and the mate must be removed at the same time, itis possible to make partial renewals with the new system.In answer to a question that if Lorain Steel Companyspiral is now in the track, would one of the new spiralsbe used and leave the frog point in the same location,Mr. Ryder said that this was the case, but that it wouldbe necessary slightly to change the center radius of thecurve. There is a change in the length of the lead railas the heel of the switch comes in a different position.Most of the cutting is due to the new A. E. R. A. switchbeing 13 ft. 6 in. long, instead of 12 ft. long, as it wasin the old standard. In closing the discussion on the proposed standardspirals, President Phillips said that the point seems tobe approaching where the much mooted question ofstandard spirals will be settled, and settled very hkely tothe complete satisfaction of t

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