. The street railway review . -plates the tilling of the space between pillars with plateglass, so it will be enclosed for winter. The cost isabout $1,000. King & Andrews Company, Chicago, western manu-facturers and agents of the composite brake shoe, reporta good business. The special claim for this shoe is, notthat it will stop the wheels of a car suddenly, permittingit to shoot ahead under its momentum, skidding andflattening the wheels, but will gradually, and in less dis-tance, bring the car quietly to a stop without the usualjerking and jumping, and with much less danger of flat-tening t
. The street railway review . -plates the tilling of the space between pillars with plateglass, so it will be enclosed for winter. The cost isabout $1,000. King & Andrews Company, Chicago, western manu-facturers and agents of the composite brake shoe, reporta good business. The special claim for this shoe is, notthat it will stop the wheels of a car suddenly, permittingit to shoot ahead under its momentum, skidding andflattening the wheels, but will gradually, and in less dis-tance, bring the car quietly to a stop without the usualjerking and jumping, and with much less danger of flat-tening the wheels. It is also claimed that a car equippedwith this shoe will be more easily handled by the motor-man and will give a largely increased service. 288 (jfeectlJ^aAU^J^ylfiW THE BLOCK SIGNAL USED AT MUSKEGON. Block signals for use in places where there is dangerthat cars will meet on single track are becoming morenumerous every day. One of the most substantial yetconstructed has been in service for eight months on the. target at night. Figures 4 and 5 show the arrangementof circuits for operating the signals. In Figure 5, i, 2, 3and 4 are devices for making connection between trolleywire and signal wire when a trolley wheel passes 4 shows the device in detail. The box over thetrolley wire is made of a single piece of sheet box is supported near each end by metal posts rest-ing on the trolley wire and insulated from the box. Thebox is connected with the semaphore. Thus, when atrolley wheel passes under the box, a connection isestablished between the signal and the trolley 5 shows the semaphore in position as used on asingle track curve at a street corner. To illustrate itsworking, suppose that a car passes line box numbered trolley wheel makes connection with the danger sideof the solenoid and the target is turned to danger andlamps lit. A car approaching box 3 would then knowthat there was a car on the single track and that it mustwa
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