. Electric railway journal . ucks of this type are in use ongeneral maintenance work, and owing to their lightnessare especially valuable in cases of emergency where theyare able to save considerable time in reaching the loca-tion of the trouble as compared with the heavier types. Convenient Brake-Beam Holder Usedby Kansas City Railways The work of repairing or dismantling a brake beamin the shops of the Kansas City (Mo.) Railways for-merly required one or two men to hold the beam inposition and another to do the work. One man has beenenabled to handle this work by the use of a brake-beamform
. Electric railway journal . ucks of this type are in use ongeneral maintenance work, and owing to their lightnessare especially valuable in cases of emergency where theyare able to save considerable time in reaching the loca-tion of the trouble as compared with the heavier types. Convenient Brake-Beam Holder Usedby Kansas City Railways The work of repairing or dismantling a brake beamin the shops of the Kansas City (Mo.) Railways for-merly required one or two men to hold the beam inposition and another to do the work. One man has beenenabled to handle this work by the use of a brake-beamform described in the current issue of the Railwayan,the company publication. The accompanying illustration shows the general ap-pearance of this device, the form of which is 30 in. high 300-Hp. Gasoline Car for Union Pacific The Union Pacific Railroad has just ordered anothercombination United States railway mail post-office-bag-gage 300-hp. motor car from the McKeen Motor CarCompany. This car, with passenger coach, will operate. COMBINATION GASOLINE MOTOR CAR FOR UNION PACIFICRAILROAD on the Lincoln-Central City district, and will perform aservice equivalent to that of a locomotive and three-carpassenger train. The motor car is very similar to onepurchased from the McKeen Company last year, which,with a passenger coach, displaced a five-unit steam trainon the Stapleton branch.
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