. Electric railway journal . steelball against the gong; large sand boxes with sand traps, builtby the railways company, and Keystone leakless sandcrvalves. These valves are so designed that on pressing thevalve stem to open the admission port a second valve seat 1096 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXIV. No. 21. is brought into engagement, thus closing the annular spacearound the valve stem and preventing the loss of air. Newpressed-steel dash headlights, furnished by Adams & West-lake, are being placed on each car. These headlights areprovided with a locking device which requires a specialw
. Electric railway journal . steelball against the gong; large sand boxes with sand traps, builtby the railways company, and Keystone leakless sandcrvalves. These valves are so designed that on pressing thevalve stem to open the admission port a second valve seat 1096 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXXIV. No. 21. is brought into engagement, thus closing the annular spacearound the valve stem and preventing the loss of air. Newpressed-steel dash headlights, furnished by Adams & West-lake, are being placed on each car. These headlights areprovided with a locking device which requires a specialwrench for opening the cover. Thus it is thought that theconsiderable loss of headlight lamps occasioned by tamper-ing and theft may be reduced. An additional feature being installed on these cars isConsolidated Car Heating Companys push-button buzzersystem, which operates directly from the trolley resistance coils, which are used to provide the low-voltage current for this buzzer-operating system, are placed. Chicago Railways Car Reconstruction—Truck as Rebuilt under a longitudinal seat at one corner of the car. Thegovernor for the air-compressor motor is installed under thesame seat and to provide for easy access for inspection, ad-justment and repair, these two devices are carried on ashelf so that they are near the top of the seat box. Thusthey are free from any dirt that might accumulate on thefloor under the seat and also are easily seen and reachedwhen the seat cushion is lifted out. On 202 of the cars the air-compressor pumps, formerly of11-ft. capacity, are being replaced by pumps of Both the old and the new pumps were manufac-tured by the National Brake & Electric Company. The work of rebuilding the 328 cars, as here described,is progressing rapidly and the rebuilt cars are being putinto service as soon as they are painted. The Swedish State Railways have accepted bids for theconversion to electric operation of the North Swedish divi-sion
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