. The street railway review . nections with other h 11 town-. Il 1- -aid that Cleveland. Pittsburg and New capan behind 1 Vkron Electric Railway 1 slock fr - 11011 to pnr- the Canton-Masillon line ami also to extend the Navarre line•Hiii Philadelphia. ROOT TRACK CLEANER. A device for cleaning the dirt from tracks and Ranges of trolleycars has been put on the market by the Root Track Scraper I Kalamazoo, Mich., and i- shown in the accompanying illustration,nd wear and tear, being made very -trong. but islight in weight. Both the -craper and the Hanger -pring- are oiltempered spring st
. The street railway review . nections with other h 11 town-. Il 1- -aid that Cleveland. Pittsburg and New capan behind 1 Vkron Electric Railway 1 slock fr - 11011 to pnr- the Canton-Masillon line ami also to extend the Navarre line•Hiii Philadelphia. ROOT TRACK CLEANER. A device for cleaning the dirt from tracks and Ranges of trolleycars has been put on the market by the Root Track Scraper I Kalamazoo, Mich., and i- shown in the accompanying illustration,nd wear and tear, being made very -trong. but islight in weight. Both the -craper and the Hanger -pring- are oiltempered spring steel and any pressure desired can be put upon thetrack, the pressure being maintained by the lexer on the car platform. i he Sanger works independently of the front -craperof the former is only the width of the rail, and it is always on thetrack, even where the rail i- several inches below the pavement. This assures a clean rail at all times, which means good ellcontact for the wheel-. The front springs ,,f this device are 3. ROOT TRACK SCRAPER. wide of No. 2 gage -pring steel, and the rear spring- 2 111. wide olNo. 8 gage. These springs are fastened to j-m. wrought iron gaspipe with bolts and jamb nuts. The lever arm in the centeitened to the pipe \\ no a set -crew and can be placed in any position<iii tin pipe 50 that the lever handle can he placed m any posititform a- de-ired. Hanger -pring i- fastened withscrew so as to operate independent of the other -pring according to die condition of the track. ii. Lewiston (Me.), Brunswick & Bath Street Wednesday, June nth, a- hosiptal day, donating a large pro- 1 of the proceeds for that day to the Manic General 11at Lewi-ton. The tir-t through car between Dayton, and Newark, over theColumbus, London & Springfield wa- run Saturday. June J. S. llarshnian, president, and II. A. Fisher, vice presidentand general manager, and a number of guests, Tine jo. 1002.] STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 373
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