. Electric railway journal . off of the tracks. In one casea Packard truck pulled for ten blocks, a disabled autotruck loaded with 5 tons of coal, before a street wasfound into which the absence of high snow outside ofthe railway area would allow it to be placed. We have tried several kinds of skidding chains butonly one, which is built similar to pleasure-car skidchains, has been really successful. Even this shearsoff very rapidly, due to the weight of the truck and todriving on and off of the car tracks so often. In anemergency, 5/16-in. span wire has been wrapped aroundthe tire as shown. Su
. Electric railway journal . off of the tracks. In one casea Packard truck pulled for ten blocks, a disabled autotruck loaded with 5 tons of coal, before a street wasfound into which the absence of high snow outside ofthe railway area would allow it to be placed. We have tried several kinds of skidding chains butonly one, which is built similar to pleasure-car skidchains, has been really successful. Even this shearsoff very rapidly, due to the weight of the truck and todriving on and off of the car tracks so often. In anemergency, 5/16-in. span wire has been wrapped aroundthe tire as shown. Such an anti-skid is comparativelycheap. Caution must be used to prevent the wire fromcutting or wearing off and jamming in the drivingchains. Special Uses of Motor Trucks A series of four pictures, reproduced on page 94, showsthe use of the Couple-Gear truck in pulling woodenpoles, (set for temporary use) on Webster Avenue inthe Bronx during the construction of a trunk was the first time the truck was used for that. THIRD AVENUE LINE TRUCKS—UNION RAILWAY COUPLE-GEARTRUCK WITH TOWER purpose. In six hours thirty-nine poles were removed,including one which could be removed by hand onlyand in much more time. In the same number of hoursthis truck enabled us to set twelve 900-lb. iron poles ona steel structure, including loading of the poles on thereach trailer, hauling them four blocks, unloading themon a bridge where 150 vehicles were passing per busi-ness hour with one roadway torn up, and placing eachpole posed for bolting up. One pole was set in place onthe stone abutment of the bridge alongside the bridge-tenders house, outside the railing, in less than forty-five minutes. This period included the time for build-ing the runway to get the car on the sidewalk, andmaneuvering the truck in a space less than 2 ft. widerand 10 ft. longer than the truck without damage to thebridge gates or the truck. This was really a demon-stration of unusually good handling on the part o
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