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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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ed whether to discontinue the serviceat once or to allow it to continue for a few clays longer. TheStreet Railway Journal will publish the full details of theconclusions arrived at from this most interesting test just assoon as the officials of the Cleveland Electric Railway Com-pany are willing to give them out. One of the bills introduced into the Massachusetts Legisla-ture at the present session makes it compulsory upon the Bos-ton Elevated Railway Company to give to passengers on itscars coming from South Boston to the South station a transfercheck good on any car either on the surface or on the elevatedrailway going northward, and to give to any passenger on anyof its cars, either on the surface or on the elevated, comingfrom the North to the South station, a transfer check good fortransportation on any car of the company to South Boston.The object of this suggested legislation is to have establisheda transfer station for the Boston Elevated Railway Companyat the South station. f
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STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXV. No. 5. A TYPICAL SHOP EQUIPMENT FOR HANDLING STEEL-TIRED WHEELS With the growing use of the steel-tired wheel in electricrailway service, for more adequately withstanding the heavyduty imposed by the heavier weights and speeds and fasterschedules now in vogue, the question of shop handling in keep-ing the wheels in the best condition has grown to be a problemof considerable importance. In many cases of electrical opera- one of great advantage for economical operation, particularlyas the improved Pond steel-tired car-wheel lathe, illustratedherewith, is capable of truing 42-in. wheels, with the hardestKrupp tires, at an average rate of six pairs per day of ten hours. The general view below shows only a portion of the en-tire equipment in this shop plant, there being installed herethree of the large 42-in. lathes, one of which appears at the left.At the right of this is a smaller car-wheel lathe which differsfrom the 42-in. center-driven lathe, in that

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