. The Street railway journal . ent to bond only one rail. This has the advantage(greatly to be desired in many cases) of leaving the other railfree for the purpose of block signals. Furthermore, the evilsof electrolysis are completely avoided with the alternating-current system. APPLEYARD SYNDICATE WINS IN TAX SUIT INSTITUTEDBY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS The Appleyard syndicate, owners of the Ohio River & West-ern Railway, a steam road operating from Zanesville to Wheel-ing, have been successful in the suit brought by the CountyCommissioners against the company to collect rental and back LARGE SNOW
. The Street railway journal . ent to bond only one rail. This has the advantage(greatly to be desired in many cases) of leaving the other railfree for the purpose of block signals. Furthermore, the evilsof electrolysis are completely avoided with the alternating-current system. APPLEYARD SYNDICATE WINS IN TAX SUIT INSTITUTEDBY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS The Appleyard syndicate, owners of the Ohio River & West-ern Railway, a steam road operating from Zanesville to Wheel-ing, have been successful in the suit brought by the CountyCommissioners against the company to collect rental and back LARGE SNOW PLOWS IN DETROIT The city and interurban system of the Detroit United Rail-way Company is so extensive that the provisions made forclearing snow necessarily have to be most complete. For theinterurban lines, namely, the Rapid Railway, Flint, Pontiac,Orchard Lake and Wyandotte divisions, reliance is chieflyplaced upon a number of large nose snow plows, which areof particular interest owing to the fact that the nose is oper-. DETROIT SNOW PLOW AT WORK ated pneumatically. The air cylinders are located directly overthe plow, and can be seen in the engraving. The plow is set to the proper height by a turn-buckle in thebar connecting the plow with the horizontal bar joining thepistons of the two air cylinders. When in use the turn-buckleis so adjusted that about half the weight of the plow rests uponthe track. When lifted up with air the plow is about 6 the track. The back ends of the large side bars, which
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