. The street railway review . RAIL BREAKING MACHINE. projecting sill a horizontal piece, b, is carried back towards thecar. The object of the piece will be explained later. Chains run-ning over suitable pulleys and pulled by a winding drum driven byan electric motor have tongs at the ends which grip the power is applied the rails and ties are lifted, the rail being. VIEW OF PIECE OF WRECKED TRACK. time and in this case a wire cable is attached to the chain, carriedaround a pulley at the nose of the side sill and the rail bent downas shown in Fig. 2. When bending rails down the clamp
. The street railway review . RAIL BREAKING MACHINE. projecting sill a horizontal piece, b, is carried back towards thecar. The object of the piece will be explained later. Chains run-ning over suitable pulleys and pulled by a winding drum driven byan electric motor have tongs at the ends which grip the power is applied the rails and ties are lifted, the rail being. VIEW OF PIECE OF WRECKED TRACK. time and in this case a wire cable is attached to the chain, carriedaround a pulley at the nose of the side sill and the rail bent downas shown in Fig. 2. When bending rails down the clamps c areplaced at the fulcrum as in Fig. 2. Bending the rails is continuedtill they are broken. When it is desirable to nick the rails this is done by strikingwith sledges on two cold chisels d d, mounted on the fulcrumblocks. This machine is especially designed to tear up track havingwelded joints and for this purpose has proved to be a great laborsaving device. Mr. Baumhoff reports that this machine with a crewof three men will tear up nearly two miles of track in a day, break-
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