. The Street railway journal . ELEVATIONS AND PLAN OF TRUCK WITH WHEEL AND TRACK BRAKE by a rapidly increasing leverage on account of the shapeof the cams. With an ordinary stop the shoes have a move-ment simply against the periphery of the wheel. If an emer-gency stop is required, the pressure on the brake lever is in-creased. This presses the shoes still tighter against theperiphery of the wheels and carries the shoe down with therotation of the wheel until the lower part of the shoe engagesthe rail. The brake then acts as a track brake, preventing theskidding of the wheels. world, have been
. The Street railway journal . ELEVATIONS AND PLAN OF TRUCK WITH WHEEL AND TRACK BRAKE by a rapidly increasing leverage on account of the shapeof the cams. With an ordinary stop the shoes have a move-ment simply against the periphery of the wheel. If an emer-gency stop is required, the pressure on the brake lever is in-creased. This presses the shoes still tighter against theperiphery of the wheels and carries the shoe down with therotation of the wheel until the lower part of the shoe engagesthe rail. The brake then acts as a track brake, preventing theskidding of the wheels. world, have been welded by this company. A few of the largecities in which work has been done by this company include thefollowing: New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Baltimore, Newark,Jersey City, Providence, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chi-cago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Los Angeles, SanFrancisco, Paris, Marseilles, Havre, Nancy, Bordeaux, Lyons,Nice, Berlin, Cologne and London. Outside the welding business, the Falk Company manufac-
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