. The Street railway journal . The distance from center to center at the ends to allow a slight compression at the edges of theouter metal sheet, thus making it water-tight. When the panelsare raised into the roof pockets their positionis directly behind the head linings. The carsare handsomely finished in ash, and have ceil-ings of decorated birch, giving a light andpleasant effect. Guard rails on either side areof a single piece, and held under the water-board by patented gravity catches when not inuse. The cars are mounted on Brill Eurekamaximum traction trucks, having solid forgedside fram
. The Street railway journal . The distance from center to center at the ends to allow a slight compression at the edges of theouter metal sheet, thus making it water-tight. When the panelsare raised into the roof pockets their positionis directly behind the head linings. The carsare handsomely finished in ash, and have ceil-ings of decorated birch, giving a light andpleasant effect. Guard rails on either side areof a single piece, and held under the water-board by patented gravity catches when not inuse. The cars are mounted on Brill Eurekamaximum traction trucks, having solid forgedside frames and a wheel base of 4 ft. Thedriving wheels are 33 inf. in diameter, and thepony wheels 22 ins.; the axles are 4 ins. Thetrucks are equipped with 38-hp motors. Thesand-boxes, which are of the builders make,have extra large hoppers, occupying all theavailable space under the corner seats. Among other specialtiesused on these cars are channel-iron radial draw-bars, De-denda alarm gongs, angle-iron bumpers and folding 222 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIII. No. 6. PNEUMATIC RAIL SANDER RAILWAY TELEPHONES The accompanying cut shows some details of the Ham airsander, manufactured by the Ham Sand Box Company, ofTroy, N. Y. This sander has been in use on many railwaysduring the past two years, and is stated to be giving excellentservice. This sander possesses a number of special features, amongthese being the shelf for preventing sand from packing in thebottom of the box, the air space under the shelf and a ventpipe communicating with same for drawing off all moisturefrom condensation. The latter feature is a very desirable one,as moisture has been the cause of much trouble in sanders
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