. The street railway review . of Illinois. Champaignand Urbana. III. The equipment of the electrical engineering labor-atory is being continuously increased for regular and advancedwork in these branches. The four years undergraduate course has been made elective forthe last year and a half: that is. a student may elect his furtherwork in the regular electrical course, in the electro-physical course,or in the electro-chemical course. The degree of electrical engineeris given only after completion of five years. The fifth year isdevoted entirely to special work. 726 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol.
. The street railway review . of Illinois. Champaignand Urbana. III. The equipment of the electrical engineering labor-atory is being continuously increased for regular and advancedwork in these branches. The four years undergraduate course has been made elective forthe last year and a half: that is. a student may elect his furtherwork in the regular electrical course, in the electro-physical course,or in the electro-chemical course. The degree of electrical engineeris given only after completion of five years. The fifth year isdevoted entirely to special work. 726 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. [Vol. IX, No. lo. THE BRYAN CAR DISMANTLER. The manager who has once witnessed the operation of the devicedescribed in this article will hardly consider his shop equipmentcomplete without it. Our illustrations show this system as in-stalled in the Frankstown shops of the Consolidated Traction Co.,Pittsburg. The dismantling pit in which the device operates is extendedsideways for a sufficient distance to allow for hoisting out the. BKYAX CAR DISMANTLER. wheels and motors. On the floor of this are track rails placed atright angles with the car tracks above. A section of the track overthe pits sutticiently longer than the over all dimension of the wheels,is removable, being made in the form of a truck with small wheelson each side as shown. The truck is provided with sliding plates,curved so as to fit the flanges of the wheels, and operated by screw
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