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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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purpose. There is a large warehouse in the yard, withplatform surrounding it, and equipped with a crane for unload-ing heavy material. A track scale adjoins the building. Thecompany makes a practice of keeping large stocks of materialon hand all the tim-i, the average receipts of late being 400 cars October 14, 1905.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 733 a month. Cars are handled about the yard by a flat-car loco-motive fitted with four 50-hp motors. Much transferring ofmaterial about the yard is being done by the motor-operatedderrick car, illustrated. This is also used on construction workabout the city, and it has been used to advantage on wrecks.A home-made concrete mixer is illustrated in another view. NOVEL METHOD EMPLOYED IN TRANSPORTING 3000 PEOPLE On Aug. 10 President Roosevelt visited Wilkesbarre, Pa.,and all of the railroad and traction companies, anticipatingheavy traffic, prepared for the occasion. The Wilkesbarre &Hazleton Railway, the short line between Hazleton and Wilkes-
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STOCK YARDS OF THE CLEVELAND ELECTRIC RAILWAY Recently the company built a concrete retaining wall along therailroad tracks adjoining its Windermere car house, and asthe surrounding property where material could be unloadedwas considerably higher than the retaining wall, a motor-oper-ated belt conveyor was rigged up. The material was dumpedinto a hopper and automatically prepared and conveyed to plat-forms below. The outfit will come in handy in other similarwork. A new sand car has been rigged up for use this winter. Ithas an air tank and motor-driven compressor outfit at one endof the car, while the balance of the space is given up to sand,loaded about as heavy as the car will stand. The sand feedsdown an incline at each end into the receivers of Nichols-Lintern air sanders, sand being fed to the rail through pipesin front of each pair of wheels. One man can operate the carand the sanding device. Chief Engineer Cook is much pleased with the results ob-tained from oil lubrication of

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