. The Street railway journal . e trolley board, 9 ft. !$/&ins.; from the track to the platform step, 14 ins., and fromthe step to the platform, 12 ins. The woodwork of the in-teriors consists of cherry, and the ceilings are of carlinefinish, all stained the same color. The longitudinally placedslat seats are also of cherry. The trucks are of the type with 7 ft. wheel base, 33-in. wheels and Two 25-hp motors are used per car. The weight ofa car and truck without the motors, is lbs. -*++- TRIPLE-DRUM SANDER FOR RAILWAY SHOPS The J. A. Fay & Egan Company, of Cincinnati,
. The Street railway journal . e trolley board, 9 ft. !$/&ins.; from the track to the platform step, 14 ins., and fromthe step to the platform, 12 ins. The woodwork of the in-teriors consists of cherry, and the ceilings are of carlinefinish, all stained the same color. The longitudinally placedslat seats are also of cherry. The trucks are of the type with 7 ft. wheel base, 33-in. wheels and Two 25-hp motors are used per car. The weight ofa car and truck without the motors, is lbs. -*++- TRIPLE-DRUM SANDER FOR RAILWAY SHOPS The J. A. Fay & Egan Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, re-cently brought out its No. 4 triple-drum sander, called TheConqueror. It is stated that for car shops having fine sandingto do, this machine will be found very valuable, as the qual-ity of its work is always first-class and uniform under themost trying conditions. It works material from 30 ins. to80 ins. wide and 8 ins. thick. The three steel drums carrysandpaper of varying grade from coarse to fine, and have. TRIPLE-DRUM SANDING MACHINE a vibratory motion that eliminates all lines and snake drums can be entirely removed without trouble, andany ordinary workman can recover them, and give the paperthe proper tension in a very short time. There are eightfeed rolls, four above and four below the platen, driven bya train of heavy-expansion gearing. The three pressurerolls are placed one over each drum. The feed is governedby a double belt-tightener, operated by a hand lever. *♦+— The Pittsburg Railway Company is to install twenty emer-gency straight air brake equipments for motor cars with CP-21air compressors, and ten emergency straight air brake equip-ments for trail cars, furnished by the General Electric Com-pany. The cars upon which these equipments will bemounted are to be run singly and in two-car trains, con-sisting of one motor car and one trailer. The type of airbrake equipment above mentioned, sometimes called semi-automatic, is essentially a st
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