. The Street railway journal . ruck are 33 ins. in diameter, and thewheel base is 72 ins. The brake shoes are suspended by links, arehung on the outside, and the brake rigging on one side is inde-pendent of that on the other. No brake beams are used. Thebrakes are outside hung in order to protect the gears and bearingsof the motors from the fine dust from the brake shoes, which wasfound to occasion considerable injury. The truck was designed byFrank Hedley, general superintendent of the Lake Street Elevated,and is manufactured by Fitzhugh & Company, of Chicago. ♦♦♦ It is stated that the New Or
. The Street railway journal . ruck are 33 ins. in diameter, and thewheel base is 72 ins. The brake shoes are suspended by links, arehung on the outside, and the brake rigging on one side is inde-pendent of that on the other. No brake beams are used. Thebrakes are outside hung in order to protect the gears and bearingsof the motors from the fine dust from the brake shoes, which wasfound to occasion considerable injury. The truck was designed byFrank Hedley, general superintendent of the Lake Street Elevated,and is manufactured by Fitzhugh & Company, of Chicago. ♦♦♦ It is stated that the New Orleans City & Lake Railroad Com-pany, the Crescent City Railway Company, and the New OrleansTraction Company will be merged into one corporation under thetitle of the New Orleans City & Lake Railroad Company. This itis believed will enable a considerable reduction in operating ex-penses to be made. The bonds and stock of the merged com-panies will be exchanged for new securities to be issued by thenew FIG. 3.—CONNECTION FOR LONGBOND 746 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIV. No. u. Instruments for Street Railway Switchboards Among the many details which are essential to the successfuloperation of a modern street railway installation, none is of greaterimportance than the proper equipment of the switchboard, whichhas been aptly called the nerve center of the whole system. Ifthe switchboard is poorly constructed or badly equipped endlesstrouble ensues, no matter how well the balance of the system is de-signed and installed. Again, of all the switchboard apparatus themost important is the indicating instrument which silently per-forms its function of showing at every moment the exact conditionof generators and line. Indicating as it does the exact per-formance of each generator or translating device, it is of primeimportance that its selection should be governed by judgment anddiscretion. It must be accurate and it must be durable, fulfilling
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