. The Street railway journal . SIDE VIEW, SHOWING PLOWS RAISED plow car for digging up macadam pavement on suburbanhighways where track repair is to be undertaken. The Calu-met road has many miles of track in outlying districts onstreets paved with macadam, and because of its large mileagelabor-saving means for effecting extensive track repairs areextremely desirable. This car will easily supplant a gang oftwenty track laborers with picks in loosening up pavementpreparatory to track repairs. The plow car is simply a four-wheeled truck, as seen in theaccompanying engravings, upon which ten plow
. The Street railway journal . SIDE VIEW, SHOWING PLOWS RAISED plow car for digging up macadam pavement on suburbanhighways where track repair is to be undertaken. The Calu-met road has many miles of track in outlying districts onstreets paved with macadam, and because of its large mileagelabor-saving means for effecting extensive track repairs areextremely desirable. This car will easily supplant a gang oftwenty track laborers with picks in loosening up pavementpreparatory to track repairs. The plow car is simply a four-wheeled truck, as seen in theaccompanying engravings, upon which ten plow bars, or dig-gers, are mounted between the wheels. There are two of thesebars outsJ^le of each rail and three inside of each rail. Theseare raised and lowered by screws worked by hand necessary, additional dead weight in the shape of pig-iron can be loaded on the truck to hold it down. In front ofthe rear wheels are scrapers to take the loose dirt and gravel. TRACK AFTER PASSING OF PLOW off the rail and prevent derailing the rear wheels. The diggingbars are made of tool steel. The appearance of the track afterthe plow car has passed along is shown in one of the engrav-ings. The car is pulled by one or two motor cars, accordingto the necessities of the case. The outfit is simple in construc-tion and saves the company much money in the course of theseason. Mr. Sloan would be very unwilling to part with itsservices. The accompanying views were taken during work last sea-son on Cottage Grove Avenue, where it was necessary to re-new ties in order to keep the track in surface. Joints on this
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