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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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which are provided with air hoists. The cranes havea capacity of 2000 lbs. each and will swing a distance of 8 ft.from the center of the car. The air cylinders for operatingthe hoists are 10 ins. in diameter by 40-in. stroke. The carshown is equipped with a 24-ft. air compressor and with twoair reservoirs, so as to give ample storage capacity for storingthe air used in connection with the air hoists. The method of bracing the mast of the cranes is rathernovel. Each mast is braced from the floor of the car by twoi-in. rods, which are enclosed in what is known qs hydraulictubing or hydraulic piping. This tubing is ij^ in. inside diam-eter and I 15-16 in. outside diameter. It will thus be under-stood that the walls of the pipe are 13-32 in. thick, giving avery stiff pipe which, when used in the manner indicated, isample to take care of any compression or tension stresseswhich may be thrown upon the braces when the hoists are inuse. The car is 41 ft. 11 ins. over bumpers and 8 ft. 2 ins.
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CAR FOR MAINTENANCE OF WAY DEPARTMENT ATBALTIMORE wide. It is not intended to carry anything longer than 30-ft.rails upon this car, but these lengths may be handled readilyas the distance between the masts of the cranes is 31 ft. 3 ins.The car is equipped with air brakes. The accompanying en-graving shows the convenience with which a heavy piece ofspecial work can be loaded or unloaded. July 7, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 15 THE APPLICATION OF Y. M. C. A. WORK TO ELECTRICRAILWAYS BY E. M. WILLIS,Railroad Secretary International Committee The object of this paper is first to outline in brief thework that has teen accompUshed by the Young Mens Chris-tian Association among the employees of the steam railroadsin this country, and then to state what has been done in thisdirection among the employees of electric railways, and toforecast the possibilities for a larger work in the electric trac-tion field. Nearly thirty years ago an association for promoting thewelfare of steam railroad em

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