. The Street railway journal . patterns of automatic couplers madeby the W. T. Van Dorn Company, Chicago, and represent thetype used on the new Northwestern Elevated and the Lake StreetElevated of that city on trailer cars, the kind used on the sameroads on motor cars, and a special form designed particularly forinterurban service. The Van Dorn couplers are giving satisfaction in many partscf the world. The company has lately been favored by ordersfrom Yokohama, Japan, and Glasgow, Scotland, as well as fromthe Continent of Europe. Recently the Manhattan Elevated, ofNew York, and new elevated r
. The Street railway journal . patterns of automatic couplers madeby the W. T. Van Dorn Company, Chicago, and represent thetype used on the new Northwestern Elevated and the Lake StreetElevated of that city on trailer cars, the kind used on the sameroads on motor cars, and a special form designed particularly forinterurban service. The Van Dorn couplers are giving satisfaction in many partscf the world. The company has lately been favored by ordersfrom Yokohama, Japan, and Glasgow, Scotland, as well as fromthe Continent of Europe. Recently the Manhattan Elevated, ofNew York, and new elevated roads of Boston have begun the in-stallation of this form of coupler on their cars. ♦♦♦ An Improved Paving Block The large number of roads now laid with the ordinary train-head girder rail have long experienced the troubles accompanyingits use both from the wearing out of the adjacent pavement andfrom the damage to vehicle wheels. The device illustrated on thispage converts the old-style rail into the standard full-groove. PAVING BLOCK FOR STREET RAILWAYS section of rail, and places within the reach of every railwaymanager the means of making his track conform to the mostmodern practice. The application of the paving block to existingroads entails very little more work than the mere repaving of thestreet, no skilled labor being required or bolts used. The engraving shows the invention used on brick-paved streets,although it is, of course, equally applicable to granite block orasphalt pavement. It is called the Buckland Paving Block, andconsists of an iron casting, grooved to receive the lip of the rail,and finished with ridges on the upper surface to give a footholdfor horse traffic. By arranging the blocks so that they breakjoints with the rail an efficient secondary rail-joint is provided, and this property increases the value of the paving block to a verygreat extent. These blocks have been extensively used in Springfield, Mass.,for more than two years, and the result h
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