. Electric railway gazette . new car barn will be built at PaloAlto. The entire system will be overhauled andwill be put in a flrst-class position as soon as pos-sible. ceeds up or down the line as ordered, the driverwatching as he goes until he reaches the placewhere his services are needed. The cut is repro-duced from the Scientific Americav. HOW HOSE IS CABRIED ACROSS TRACKS INNEW YOEK. NEW RAILWAY MOTOR OF THE CARD ELEC-TRIC MOTOR AND DYNAMO COMPANY. The most characteristic service of the patrolwagons of the Broadway line in New York is thatwhich they perform at fires. Each wagon carriesei
. Electric railway gazette . new car barn will be built at PaloAlto. The entire system will be overhauled andwill be put in a flrst-class position as soon as pos-sible. ceeds up or down the line as ordered, the driverwatching as he goes until he reaches the placewhere his services are needed. The cut is repro-duced from the Scientific Americav. HOW HOSE IS CABRIED ACROSS TRACKS INNEW YOEK. NEW RAILWAY MOTOR OF THE CARD ELEC-TRIC MOTOR AND DYNAMO COMPANY. The most characteristic service of the patrolwagons of the Broadway line in New York is thatwhich they perform at fires. Each wagon carrieseight pairs of shear legs, 20 feet high, with correspending tackle, straps and guys. On reachingthe scene of a fire, the shear legs are set up on each Recently this company has brought out a rail-way motor, shown in the accompanying illustra-tion, which is modeled after the design of theGeneral Electric Companys 800 motor, but differsfrom it in that the lower half of the frame ishingi d, and can be swung down when it is neces-. CARRYING HOSE OVER BROADWAY CARS. side of the street, and guyed so as to lean slightlyforward or toward the center of the street. Strapsare put around the lines of hose which have to becarried across the street, the falls are attachedand the hose is hoisted as shown, leaving theway clear for the cars. It is obvious that,owing to the grips, no system of bridging the tracksis applicable to a cable road. The guys are fastened sary to remove the armature. The armature shaftis held in place by a collar which, when unbolted,allows the arojature to be let down. This motoris also provided with self-oiling bearings which arelonger than those employed in the G. E. 800machine, and the motors are also equipped with asteel shaft, while the cover is of a somewhat dif-ferent pattern from the original type. Twenty- five equipments of these motors have been recentlyput in service on the lines of the Cincinnati StreetRailway Company. The Card Company has alsorecently rebuil
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