. The Street railway journal . dvance of the sweeper instead of only half the track,the sweeper cannot get stalled in a drift as must necessarilyhappen if only half the track is cleaned. A sweeper of thistype properly operated can do more than a rotary snow plowcosting two and a half times as much and with less than one-third the power. The brooms revolving at a high rate of speedin advance of the plow can be made to cut through any driftthat is formed, provided only the operator does not attempt torun the car into heavy drifts faster than it can cut the snowaway. With the broom revolving at 4
. The Street railway journal . dvance of the sweeper instead of only half the track,the sweeper cannot get stalled in a drift as must necessarilyhappen if only half the track is cleaned. A sweeper of thistype properly operated can do more than a rotary snow plowcosting two and a half times as much and with less than one-third the power. The brooms revolving at a high rate of speedin advance of the plow can be made to cut through any driftthat is formed, provided only the operator does not attempt torun the car into heavy drifts faster than it can cut the snowaway. With the broom revolving at 400 r. p. m., thesnow is thrown clear of the track as effectually as a rotarysnow plow would do it; and what is still more important, thetrack is cleaned down to the rails so that there is no wedgingof snow under the trucks and wheels, no interference withtraction, no stalling, no derailment and no failure of electricalcontact with the rails. I send you herewith a photograph of a plow of the latter THE CLEVELAND AIR-BRAKE ORDER. ELECTRIC SWEEPER FOR HEAVY DRIFTS class, showing the principles of construction I have steel underframe of this plow, which carries the revolvingbrooms, is constructed with diagonal ends at 45 degs. to the trying revolving broom sweepers of this type, numer-ous companies have recently found that they answered the pur-pose better than snow-plows, even on interurban work in theheaviest drifts. B. F. Stewart. The Northern Ohio Traction & Light Company, and the Can-ton-Akron Railway Company have completed arrangements forinstituting limited service between Cleveland and Canton byway of Akron. There will be three limited runs each way a dayand cars will stop only at Cuyahoga Falls and Akron. Thethrough run will be made in two and a half hours, in place ofthree and a quarter hours required at present. The Montreal Street Railway Company repeated its methodof Christmas giving to its employees, inaugurated in 1903, byhanding a check for
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