File:The street railway review (1891) (14760840462).jpg

Identifier: streetrailwayrev08amer (find matches)
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

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
, andupon which the car body rests. The car body is also sup-ported at the end of the truck by a half-elliptic spring, whichhas its bearing at the extreme end of the truck side frame,on a casting which is securely fastened to the truck frame The especial features of this truck are the unusually longside truck frame—the length of the spring base against thecar body and the half-elliptic adjusting spring at the endof the truck frame just referred to above. Another featurewhich will be of interest to the railway manager is the smalldistance at which the car body is carried from the ground,being enabled with this truck to bring the under side ofthe car body down to 28 in. from the rail with a 33-in.wheel. One of the great causes of annoyance in the past hasbeen the inability of truck builders to perfect a brake thatwould work satisfactorily under all conditions. This ob-ject has been attained with the greatest degree of successin this truck; the brake is perfect, the braking power being
Text Appearing After Image:
FIG. 2.—CLASS H DOUBLE MOTOR TRUCK. 346 (^tM-S^culu^Sfeto^ equally divided on each wheel, and the brake shoes are in-terchangeable and easily removed. The ease and simplicity with which the wheels and axlescan be removed is a point not to be overlooked. To a.;-complish this, it is necessary only to remove the lug at thebottom of the pedestal jaw beneath the oil box, the removalof the wheel and axle being accomplished without disturb-ing any of the springs in the truck. The truck is com-pactly built and has very few parts to get out of repair andconsequently is maintained at a minimum cost for repairs. Fig. 2 is tjie standard Class H pivotal truck, designedespecially for suburban and city service where double truckcars are used. The idea in the design of this truck is theheight. It is so constructed that the car body is carriedvery low, and avoids the great height from the rail to thecar body, which is made necessary by many of the pivotaltrucks in use. The side plates of the frame a

Note About Images