. The Street railway journal . ound the corner. As this iron went out-side of the upper moulding, it probablyanswered not only the purpose intended,but the other more destructive one ofconducting the drip down along the postto the inside of the car. How severe the service was may bejudged from the fact that the paint hasgone almost all over the panels down tothe bare wood. In this car there weremany decayed posts, and the plate wasbroken in several places. Several errorswere committed in the design of this carwhich helped to the destruction, the roofespecially being weak and the arrange-ment o
. The Street railway journal . ound the corner. As this iron went out-side of the upper moulding, it probablyanswered not only the purpose intended,but the other more destructive one ofconducting the drip down along the postto the inside of the car. How severe the service was may bejudged from the fact that the paint hasgone almost all over the panels down tothe bare wood. In this car there weremany decayed posts, and the plate wasbroken in several places. Several errorswere committed in the design of this carwhich helped to the destruction, the roofespecially being weak and the arrange-ment of the ventilators such as to givea fewer number of posts on the side ofthe raised room than was desirable. The cars in Figs. 2 and 3 are a mostmarked contrast in their condition to thatof Fig. I, which is in a remarkably goodstate of preservation and at the time it wascondemned could without much difficultyhave been repaired and made to do goodservice for many years longer. Changes in Station and Track Construction inNew FIG. 3.—OLD MONITOR ROOF BOX CAR. sometimes at every post. Most builders forget the trueuse of the iron, and act as though they depended on theiron to support the roof. The roof is amply strong to sup-port itself vmder much greater loads than ever come uponit, provided the four angles could be made stiff; that is,the angles at the top and bottom of the monitor builders bear this in mind, and so dispose their ironin relation to the woodwork as to strengthen these pointsto the utmost. This strength gained, there need be nofurther anxiety in regard to the ability of the roof to standup to its work. The covering of this car was perhaps as bad as could The cable winding drums in both of the main powerstations of the Third Avenue Railway Company, NewYork, which were originally cast solid and pressed ontheir shafts, have had to be renewed recently, owing tothe breaking of rims and .spokes from shrinkage drums with the hubs bolted to t
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