. Electric railway journal . i-m. air hose 36 in. long, pro-viding for the swing of the truck. The bottom end of thehose has a nipple which connects through a street ell into ai-in. x i-in. pipe cross, where the sand is separated bymeans of a wedge-shaped plug in the bottom of the separated sand goes to each leading wheel throughi-in. pipes which are bent to deliver sand to the railsdirectly ahead of the wheels. The pipes to the wheels aresecurely fastened to the truck frame. The rigging is made up in the companys shops, as allthe material which enters into the construction is easily
. Electric railway journal . i-m. air hose 36 in. long, pro-viding for the swing of the truck. The bottom end of thehose has a nipple which connects through a street ell into ai-in. x i-in. pipe cross, where the sand is separated bymeans of a wedge-shaped plug in the bottom of the separated sand goes to each leading wheel throughi-in. pipes which are bent to deliver sand to the railsdirectly ahead of the wheels. The pipes to the wheels aresecurely fastened to the truck frame. The rigging is made up in the companys shops, as allthe material which enters into the construction is easilyavailable in any shop of moderate size and it can easily beput together by ordinary mechanics. In the entire time that it has been in operation not asingle case has occurred where sand did not flow freelyto rails. An over-supply of sand cannot feed into the trap,. Electric Hi/- Journal Sanding Equipment on Oregon Car and Detail of Pipe Cross with Wedge-Shaped Plug cars the simple and efficient air sand rigging which is shownin the accompanying illustrations. A large sand box made of No. 14 iron and having a slop-ing bottom is provided in the cab or vestibule of the car. nor has any trouble been experienced from sand blowingback into the sand box. Good sharp, clean sand is used, and this sand is thor-oughly dried in a sand drier at the Portland shops. -420 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLII, No. ri. IPoW( Niagara Power for the International Railway Company Purchased from the Niagara Falls Companies Is Used Almost Exclusively by the Buffalo Street Railway—TheCompanys Steam Stations Are Operated Only During Rush Hours and LargeStorage Batteries Are Used to Reduce the Peaks The Buffalo Railway Company, now part of the Inter-national Railway Company, was one of the first large rail-way customers of the Niagara Falls power companies, hav-ing used
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