. The Street railway journal . city of 200 passengershad a dead weight of one hundred weightper unit of passenger capacity. The same concern also manufacture a in 1880 Mr. dUssel gave a description ofhis first attempts to thaw the thin layer ofice in the public streets, produced by thecompression of snow by vehicles in time offrost. Since that period, owing to theexpenditure of nearly $970,000 in futileattempts to remove the snow in Paris in1879-80 and 1880-81, the heavy tax hasbeeu removed from pounded salt not suitablefor ordinary purposes, enabling ealt to belargely used for clearing away s
. The Street railway journal . city of 200 passengershad a dead weight of one hundred weightper unit of passenger capacity. The same concern also manufacture a in 1880 Mr. dUssel gave a description ofhis first attempts to thaw the thin layer ofice in the public streets, produced by thecompression of snow by vehicles in time offrost. Since that period, owing to theexpenditure of nearly $970,000 in futileattempts to remove the snow in Paris in1879-80 and 1880-81, the heavy tax hasbeeu removed from pounded salt not suitablefor ordinary purposes, enabling ealt to belargely used for clearing away snow, a pro-vision of 4,000 tons of salt having beenmade for this purpose in Paris for the win-ter of 1885-6. A regular service for theremoval of snow, on its first appearance,has been organized in Paris, as it is import-ant to clear away the snow before it hasbeen compressed into ice by the passage ofvehicles, when it is far more difficult toremove. As falls of snow rarely occur at Pariswith a temperature much below the freez-. ROWANS TRAM CARS. FIG. 2. that there is no point in which the steamcar has not the adva ntage. They claimthere is less dead weight, less time occupiedfor couplings, axles and springs, a lowerconsumption of oil and fuel, and that re-pairs will be less. The interior arrangement of one of thesecars will be like that of an ordinary horsecar, with seats along the side and entrancefrom the platform behind, or with seatsrunning across the car, as shown in ourillustration Fig. 1, and entrance at theend and sides. As there are two entrances, there canbe a middle compartment so arranged thatit can be closed for winter use and thenwarmed by steam from the general appearance of such a car isvery similar to that shown by Fig. 1. For a car such as we illustrate in Fig. 2,four types of steam engines with their bogietrucks are employed according to the gradeson which the car is to be worked. Forgrades of one in forty they have a tractivepower of 1,200 lbs.
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