. Electric railway gazette . A frame is connected with a truck of a car,a shoe having a tube telescoping in the tubular frame and provided with apin supported on the truck frame. A trigger with an arm extends throughthe shoe tube and is connected with a lever for disengaging the pin fromthe truck frame. Means are provided for detaching the catch from thecross bar. RAIL JOINT AND METHOD OF FORMING SAME ; Albert Hoff-mann and Herman W. Falk, Milwaukee, Wis. Filed March 18, 1895. Thismethod of forming rail joints consists in cleaning the rail ends to be joined,forming or adjusting a moul
. Electric railway gazette . A frame is connected with a truck of a car,a shoe having a tube telescoping in the tubular frame and provided with apin supported on the truck frame. A trigger with an arm extends throughthe shoe tube and is connected with a lever for disengaging the pin fromthe truck frame. Means are provided for detaching the catch from thecross bar. RAIL JOINT AND METHOD OF FORMING SAME ; Albert Hoff-mann and Herman W. Falk, Milwaukee, Wis. Filed March 18, 1895. Thismethod of forming rail joints consists in cleaning the rail ends to be joined,forming or adjusting a mould upon the rail endsand over the joint so as tosurround the webs and base flanges thereof. The mould is heated to therail ends, and moulten metal is poured into the mould around and beneaththe base flanges of both rails and uniting the metal directly to the surfacesof the rail ends by fusion. (See Illustration.) Electric Railway Gazette. Vol. XIII. NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 7, 1895. No. 10. PENNSYLVANIA STREET RAILWAY HE annual convention of thePennsylvania Street Rail-way Association was heldlast Wednesday and Thurs-day in the pleasant city ofWilkesbarre. The hosts ofthe association were the re-presentatives of the WilkesBarre & Wyoming ValleyTraction Company, andnothing was left undone tomake the stay of the visitorsthoroughly enjoyable. The headquarters of the Associationwere at the Wyoming Valley House, which looks out on theSusquehanna River, and the meetings were held at the NinthRegiment Armory, a few blocks distant, where the exhibitof street railway supplies was located. All visitors werefurnished with tickets on the local street railway system,so that the fact that the headquarters and place of meetingwere some little distance apartdid not prove to be a matter ofinconvenience. The first session of the conven-tion was held in the assemblyroom in the Ninth RegimentArmory. After President Rigghad called the meeting to order,he introduced Mayor E. , who ga
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