. The Street railway journal . EQUIPMENT FOR CLEANING SNOW AND SLEET FROM THIRD RAIL STEEL CUTTER be spared the experience, as we had no appliances on the carsto handle an icy rail, and everything and everybody was new tothird-rail transmission. The first car caught put a man on thefender with a shovel to cut the ice ofif the rail; this was aK rightso far as the rail was concerned, but very hard on the man onaccount of the blinding flashes from the arc. We saw some-thing had to be done quickly or we would be tied up, and, as wehad fought the snow successfully, we did not care to give upbefore
. The Street railway journal . EQUIPMENT FOR CLEANING SNOW AND SLEET FROM THIRD RAIL STEEL CUTTER be spared the experience, as we had no appliances on the carsto handle an icy rail, and everything and everybody was new tothird-rail transmission. The first car caught put a man on thefender with a shovel to cut the ice ofif the rail; this was aK rightso far as the rail was concerned, but very hard on the man onaccount of the blinding flashes from the arc. We saw some-thing had to be done quickly or we would be tied up, and, as wehad fought the snow successfully, we did not care to give upbefore so simple looking a proposition as sleet, but, as usual,appearances were deceiving. It was decided that the sleet mustbe scraped off and the rail cleaned, and in looking about forsomething already at hand, we took some pressed steel tie-platesand improvised scrapers, which were fastened on the outsideends of the contact beams, as shown in the accompanyingsketch. This was crude, but effective, and, as a result of ourexperience
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