. The Street railway journal . LARGE PLOW FOR CLEANING TWO TRACKS AT ONCE 25 ft. over all and 7 ft. 3 ins. wide. The headlight and gong areplaced upon the front of the plow, as shown. There is oneother rotary plow of peculiar construction which is also illus-trated. This plow has revolving vanes in front, somewhatsimilar to the Ruggles construction except that they are in setsof two double and two single vanes, as can be seen from the peculiarity of this plow is that its body revolves on a verticalaxis, so that the front can be swung out to one side of the roadand cut away a high drift t
. The Street railway journal . LARGE PLOW FOR CLEANING TWO TRACKS AT ONCE 25 ft. over all and 7 ft. 3 ins. wide. The headlight and gong areplaced upon the front of the plow, as shown. There is oneother rotary plow of peculiar construction which is also illus-trated. This plow has revolving vanes in front, somewhatsimilar to the Ruggles construction except that they are in setsof two double and two single vanes, as can be seen from the peculiarity of this plow is that its body revolves on a verticalaxis, so that the front can be swung out to one side of the roadand cut away a high drift to a considerable distance from thetrack. In addition to the apparatus mentioned, the companyoperates two Taunton plows and one Lancaster of the ordinarytype, these three plows being painted yellow. The equipmentof all the snow plows, with but few exceptions, consists of 57-General Electric motors, the standard type of motor now in useon the road. The most interesting piece of snow-fighting apparatus, how-. LARGE PLOW CLEANING ONE TRACK AND GIVING WIDEROADWAY thirteen of a similar type, though somewhat smaller. Thesetwo types of plows are designated by their colors, the largerones being painted red and the smaller green. By this methodan inspector on any part of the road can call out the type ofapparatus required on his section, and in riding over the sys-tem the superintendent can tell at a glance what sort of ap-paratus is being used. During the bad weather sweepers areused to keep the tracks clear of slush and light snow falls, and
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