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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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Wrightsville and Wrightsville Beach,and reaches two popular amusement parks. plans to accomplish this end, it is the most satisfactory yettried. No special oil box is used. The oil is put directly intothe regular grease box of the motor. Into the hole in the bot-tom of the grease box a wooden plug is driven. In this plugis a T<s-in. bole. On top of the plug is put a layer of felt. Thebox is then nearly filled with waste. The rule is to put twotablespoonfuls of oil into the boxes every day. The wa?te isrammed into the box as tightly as possible and brought up tosuch a height that it is difficult to get more than two table-spoonfuls of oil into a box at once without running it over andmaking the fact evident upon a casual inspection of the motor. ii 14 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVI. No. 26. NEW SNOW-REMOVING EQUIPMENT FOR THE PHILADEL-PHIA RAPID TRANSIT COMPANY Like other street railways in its vicinity, the PhiladelphiaRapid Transit Company had its hands full last winter in the
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ing broom at the rear takes up what is left and leaves a clearpavement. The diagrams show the convenient location of thehandles for raising and lowering the brooms and brush boards.A shaft at the center of the car, with sprocket wheels at eitherend, is revolved by a 25-hp motor. The sprocket chains areof the builders manufacture, and thelink are composed of drop-forgings.Gear trucks carry the sweepers andhave a 40-hp motor to each axle.The dimensions are as follows:Length over the cab, 21 ft.; lengthover the bumpers, 27 ft. 6 ins.; widthover the sills, 6 ft. 10% ins.; heightover the trolley board, 11 ft. 6 ins.;height to the sills, 3 ft. 6 ins.; lengthof the brush board, 3 ft. 2 ins., andlength of the wings, 2 ft. The weightwithout motors is 13,800 lbs. ♦♦♦ A NOVEL SITUATION IN STREETRAILWAY TAXATION Street Ry.Journal FLOOR PLAN AND SIDE ELEVATION OF PHILADELPHIA SNOW SWEEPER, SHOWING THE LOCATION OF THE SNOW-FIGHTING APPARATUS, BRACING AND OTHER DETAILS endeavor to cope with th

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