. The Street railway journal . CROSS SECTION AND END ELEVATION OF TRUCK. HALF PLAN AND SIDE ELEVATION OF TRUCK G. E. 55 type, each of 155 The motor casing clears the tiesby 3 ins. The wheels of the truck are 33 ins. in diameter, and thewheel base is 72 ins. The brake shoes are suspended by links, arehung on the outside, and the brake rigging on one side is inde-pendent of that on the other. No brake beams are used. Thebrakes are outside hung in order to protect the gears and bearingsof the motors from the fine dust from the brake shoes, which wasfound to occasion considerable injury. The
. The Street railway journal . CROSS SECTION AND END ELEVATION OF TRUCK. HALF PLAN AND SIDE ELEVATION OF TRUCK G. E. 55 type, each of 155 The motor casing clears the tiesby 3 ins. The wheels of the truck are 33 ins. in diameter, and thewheel base is 72 ins. The brake shoes are suspended by links, arehung on the outside, and the brake rigging on one side is inde-pendent of that on the other. No brake beams are used. Thebrakes are outside hung in order to protect the gears and bearingsof the motors from the fine dust from the brake shoes, which wasfound to occasion considerable injury. The truck was designed byFrank Hedley, general superintendent of the Lake Street Elevated,and is manufactured by Fitzhugh & Company, of Chicago. ♦♦♦ It is stated that the New Orleans City & Lake Railroad Com-pany, the Crescent City Railway Company, and the New OrleansTraction Company will be merged into one corporation under thetitle of the New Orleans City & Lake Railroad Company. This itis believed will enable a considerable reduction in operating ex-p
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