. The Street railway journal . ctor Angerer, of Philadelphia, and Robinson, of Boston. Although the company manufactures allkinds of special track work for street railways and steam railroadsas well, particular stress was evidently laid in the exhibit on itsmanganese steel special work, which is growing more and morein favor, on account of its phenomenal wearing qualities. Ex-amples of this wear were exhibited in the shape of a wornout frog,which had sustained the traffic of 1,657,000 cars on a curve of , the head of the rail having been almost entirely wornaway, while the man
. The Street railway journal . ctor Angerer, of Philadelphia, and Robinson, of Boston. Although the company manufactures allkinds of special track work for street railways and steam railroadsas well, particular stress was evidently laid in the exhibit on itsmanganese steel special work, which is growing more and morein favor, on account of its phenomenal wearing qualities. Ex-amples of this wear were exhibited in the shape of a wornout frog,which had sustained the traffic of 1,657,000 cars on a curve of , the head of the rail having been almost entirely wornaway, while the manganese steel center of the frog is still in faircondition. The manganese steel center of another frog was alsoexhibited, which had 2,570,000 cars over it on a straight run, and itis remarkable how comparatively little wear it showed. Samplesof the companys standard manganese steel center girder rail work,and also solid manganese steel work for T-rail track were shown,besides the well known Wharton unbroken main line switch and. EXHIBIT OF THE CURTAIN SUPPLY CO the Nichols protected heel switch, which is attracting considerableattention among street railway men. The ductility of the man-ganese steel is demonstrated in the shape of bent pieces of thatremarkable metal, and the solidity of this work was shown by sec-tions through the body of the pieces as they are cast together inthe method of their manufacture. The whole exhibit was madeespecially attractive through its arrangement, and through the ex-hibition of numerous and large photographs, showing the com-panys works, also some remarkable special work layouts, as puttogether in the yard, blue prints of the companys working plans,etc. THE DUFF MANUFACTURING COMPANY, of Alle-gheny, Pa., was represented by J. Barrett, manager and vice-presi-dent. The company exhibited a full line of lever, track and oil-well jacks. THE JOSEPH DIXON CRUCIBLE COMPANY, of JerseyCity, N. J., which makes such a variety of graphite products, suit-able
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