. The Street railway journal . SAN ANTONIO HOME-MADE SAND DRIER with a U-shaped furnace built inside. The dry sand fallsthrough c-in. holes, at the bottom on each side of the fur-nace. The bin is about 6 ft. long and 4 ft. wide at the hopper is usually kept full of sand and enough is driedby simply burning the trash that accumulates about theshop in the furnace. SHOP UTILITY CARA general utility car in use about the shops has mountedupon it an air compressor and storage tanks. The car ishitched to a motor car and is utilized to convey armaturesand heavy parts about the shops. The air e
. The Street railway journal . SAN ANTONIO HOME-MADE SAND DRIER with a U-shaped furnace built inside. The dry sand fallsthrough c-in. holes, at the bottom on each side of the fur-nace. The bin is about 6 ft. long and 4 ft. wide at the hopper is usually kept full of sand and enough is driedby simply burning the trash that accumulates about theshop in the furnace. SHOP UTILITY CARA general utility car in use about the shops has mountedupon it an air compressor and storage tanks. The car ishitched to a motor car and is utilized to convey armaturesand heavy parts about the shops. The air equipment isused for blowing out controllers and motors. These are. GENERAL UTILITY AND AIR COMPRESSOR CAR INSAN ANTONIO blown out each day, and since the practice has been in-augurated there has been a noticeable decrease in controllertroubles. On the car is mounted an old-style vertical com-pressor and two 16-in. x 48-in. tanks. DEVICE FOR CLEANING RAIL GROOVESThe company is experimenting with a device for clean-ing the rail grooves in paved streets. Formerly these were cleaned by hand, and one mans time was required aboutone and one-half days per week to keep the track in condi-tion. With the device all the tracks can be gone over inabout two hours. It consists of a frame attached to therear end of the car truck and which has several downwardprojecting teeth to gouge the dirt out of the groove. Theseteeth are so held in place by springs that when rigid obstruc-tions are met, as at switches, the teeth are pulled back sothat they slide over the obstruction. The device is raised
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