The Street railway journal (1902) (14574572439)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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GRAVEL LOADER who would otherwise be engaged in shoveling gravel on tothe flat cars. Working steadily, it will load about one flatcar evcrv thirty minutes. At the present writing it is saving the wages of six menwho would otherwise be required to shovel sufficientgravel on the cars to keep ballasting crews busy. Themotor, of course, secures current from the trolley and con-nection therewith is established by :i hook and fishpole. In order to save the expenses of using horses whereplowing is necessary along interurban lines, as is frequentlythe case where they run alongside of a highway, a motorcar is used to pull the plow, and thus considerable timeand expense is saved. During the past season washouts have been numerousmii interurban lines aroun 1 Detroit as well as upon steam 456 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XX. No. 14. roads in that vicinity. Some 60-ft. rails on false workhave been used to span these washouts in some cases, and
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TRACKS IN SOD IN SUBURBAN STREETS they have thus saved what otherwise would have been along delay in getting the road in operation. Practically all the switches on the interurban lines havedouble-spring tongues and No. 9 spring frogs so as toleave an uninterrupted main line at sidings not frequentlyused, or in the case of turnouts at regular meeting pointsthey are set so as to obviate the necessity of throwing theswitch. In the latter case, of course, the switch is alwaysset to send a car on the right-hand track. As commontarget signals when used on such spring switches are notvery satisfactory, since they will not surely show the dis-placement of a switch point which may be sufficiently outof place to cause a wreck, Mr. Kerwin has invented asemaphore switch signal which will show clear only whenthe switch point is entirely closed. One of these signalsnow in use at Log Cabin Loop is shown in the accompany-ing engraving. The semaphore is worked by a bell cranklever connected to a rod f