. The Street railway journal . with sand-boxes, platform andconductor gongs, angH-iron bumpers, and draw-bars of thebuilders manufacture. The trucks are No. 27-C-T. with ^-w- The St. Louis Car Company is now making three differenttypes of sand-boxes. Fig. 1 shows the type known as theNo. 1 box. This box has a galvanized iron hopper. The feedvalve is of the ball and socket type, and is oper-ated by a set of bell-crank levers from an up-right staff on the front platform, although afoot lever can be used in the place of the action of the ball is to crush the sandlumps befor
. The Street railway journal . with sand-boxes, platform andconductor gongs, angH-iron bumpers, and draw-bars of thebuilders manufacture. The trucks are No. 27-C-T. with ^-w- The St. Louis Car Company is now making three differenttypes of sand-boxes. Fig. 1 shows the type known as theNo. 1 box. This box has a galvanized iron hopper. The feedvalve is of the ball and socket type, and is oper-ated by a set of bell-crank levers from an up-right staff on the front platform, although afoot lever can be used in the place of the action of the ball is to crush the sandlumps before they reach the feed pipe. The No. 2 sand-box has a hopper similar toNo. 1, but instead of a ball and socket valveand agitator, the plain slide valve at the bot-tom of the hopper is used. This is intendedfor use where dry, fine sand is always avail-able. The No. 3 box is of an entirely different hopper is made of cast-iron, so that it has no seams to be-come leakv. For feeding- sand there is a rotarv agitator with a. INTERIOR OF SANTA BARBARA CAR, SHOWING OPEN COM-PARTMENT IN THE FOREGROUND disc slide valve on the same piece. This bo-: is operated eitherby hand or foot lever. The tube attachment of this box is such
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