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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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is a sliding door 5 ft. wide and 7ft. high with two windows. The entire outside of the carand the roof inside are painted white; the walls insi<le aredark red. The snow scrapers consist of a large blade on each end ofcar and set at an angle of 45 degrees. These scrapers are3 ft. wide, 3 in. thick and i i ft. long, built of oak throughout,bolted together by large bolts and slabs of i^x6-in. steel.On the inside and at the same angle is a 4-in. shaft with tum-blers ; these are connected to the scraper with 3/^-\n chains.Additional safety chains are provided which take most ofthe weight of the blade. Three 5<(-in. chains run from theextreme ends of main sills to the bottom edge of the scraperto withstand any end or side thrust when the plow is work-ing a heavy snow bank. A 4-in. toggle shaft 6 ft. long,with one end fastened to the main side sill of the car and theother to the scraper blade, also adds stiffness to the scraper.On the rear side of the blades are fastened steel brushes
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ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE AND SNOW PLOW—AKRON, BEDFORD * CLEVELAND. in. All the cross timbers are niurtised into the main sills,the mortises being white leaded, and tlic frame tictl togetherby six heavj- bolts. To stiffen the main timbers two trussrods are placed under the outside sills, passing over the endsof the bolsters and fastened to the extreme ends of the sidesills, with turn buckles in the middle. The bolster proper is built up of two pieces of steelf^x6 in. by 7 ft., with oak between them and on the sides,and bolted together. The bolsters are bolted to the cross-timbers by eight ^xi6-in. bolts, making solid bolsters 14in. wide by 15 in. deep. The framing above the floor is allof oak timbers 6x7 in. mortised together. Eight mortisedbraces on each side stiffen the car against end thrusts. Oneach side a truss runs from the ends of the side timber upover the door posts. The side frames are tied together bysix vertical bolts. The inside of the car is ceiled, hiding theframing and tru

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