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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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er shaft. Anidler maintains the proper belt tension. Since the practiceof casting wheels in the shop has been abandoned this ornaments formerly used, results in a saving of about $14per car. Pullman green has been adopted as a standardcar color, as this is the only color that has been found tohold. Other colors are bleached by the alkali soil. Con-trary to usual practice, the seats and posts of summer carsare painted and grained when the cars are put through thepaint shop. This practice it is considered gives a betterappearance than when varnish only is applied to the stainedwoodwork. The seats and posts of such cars are given twocoats of lead and a graining coat and are then finished with April 20, 1907.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 689 two coats of varnish. Cars are brought in the shop fora thorough overhauHng once each year. As double equip-ment is used this is equivalent to an overhauling after six months of service. SIGNS ON CARS Instead of tacking miscellaneous card-board signs such
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the car. By painting the numbers on the deck windowswhere they can be readily seen at night some of the diffi-culties of the inspectors are removed. Contrary to theusual practice, all of the cars are provided with fire extin-guishers. These are of the dry powder type and take upvery little space. One of the reproductions shows the manner of hangingswitch lods to prevent them swinging and marring thedash. The lower end of the rod rests in a small cup screwedto the bumper iron. A kink of advantage to users of Baltimore trucks is shownin a view on page 688. Instead of replacing the worn run-ways of these trucks in which the brake beam slides, thewear is taken up by fitting in the shoes ordinarily used onthe brake beams. They are placed in such a position thatthat shoe on the runway and that on the slide wear against each other. ^ *-w-* ELECTRIFICATION AT ST. PETERSBURG It is reported that work on the ten contracts which theWestinghouse Electric Company secured last year fromthe municipal

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