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Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ANDARD OPEN AND CLOSED CITY CARS, DETROIT are emphasized by trimming of white paint around theedges of the carving. The use of a narrow-grooved rail in Detroit as requiredby the city gives rise to considerable difficulty in keepingthe grooves free of snow in the winter and dust in thesummer. The grooved rail scraper employed at first isshown by an accompanying engraving, as is also a later The wheel flanges on both city and interurban cars arelimited in depth and width by the groove rail required onall track inside the city limits. The flange adopted forDetroit United Railway cars is ; in. deep x i J ins. wide atthe throat, and the tread is 2i ins. wide. Wheels are pressedon between the limits of 25 tons and 40 tons. Kalamazoo trolley wheels are run on the interurban cars. 452 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XX. No. 14. The latest form of trolley wheel we are using on the city carsis one made in our own shops. Drawings of the wheel andharp are shown herewith. No hushing whatever is used
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lbs. to 25 lbs. for interurban work and 15 lbs. for city cars. All extensive repairs for the Detroit United Railway sys-tem, and the car painting and varnishing for the RapidRailway system are carried out in the Jefferson Avenueshops. Ordinary renewals of worn out or broken parts aremade at the car houses. For distributing and collectingarmatures, fields, brake-shoes, car wheels and other renewalparts to the four interurban division car houses a specialsupply car has been built which makes the rounds daily.This car is illustrated herewith. The closed part is fittedup comfortably for the men and for any officers who maywish to make use of this car on inspection tours over theroad without the expense incident to a special car. Therear part is open and has a crane with a capacity of 2000

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo201902newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:475
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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