Brake Rigging ALCO Schenectady 1904

«Diagram of brake rigging of truck for Schenectady car» (original caption)
Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (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



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ning provided in the finish and engaging with theend of the worm projecting from the bracket. The roller bracketshave extending flanges designed to receive the sash when raisedto its limit, and the sash is provided with rubber buffers placedto strike against the bracket flange. In this design of window it is intended that the roller shall beadjusted to balance the sash. At each of the two sides of the top of the sash. Weather stripping is provided at both the topand bottom edges of the sash, applied in a manner which willmaintain a tight joint at these two points, which is not aflfected bya change of camber in the car, a sliglit tilting of the sash in theframe, or a warping of the rails of the sash. In operating the sash the bevel bolts are withdrawn, when thesash is readily raised or lowered by hand, the pressure of tlie rollerbearing always remaining against the sash. The drop sash in the niotormans window in the cab is fitted
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window a metal bar is applied to the stop casings having a bearingsurface at an angle to the inside surface of the sash. At eachof the two bottom corners of the sash a lock is placed having abeveled bolt operated by a pivoted lever or finger latch, the bevell)olt being normally held by a spring against the bevel surface ofthe bar upon the stop casing, thereby wedging the sash firmlyagainst the outside stops at the bottom of the window with ayielding pressure which is self-adjusting to varying conditions, suchas shrinking or swelling of the wood, and always maintaining atight joint at this point, excluding dust and cinders from the car, with the Edwards No. 8 design, in which the balance roller is placedbelow the sash. The car bodies are mounted on double trucks built by the Ameri-can Locomotive Co. at its Schenectady works. These trucks, shownin the accompanying engraving, have a wheel base of 6 ft. 6 in.;the wheels arc steel tired, 34 in. in diam