. Electric railway journal . ong and 7 ft. 8% in, wide. Thecab is vestibuled at each end and has two sliding doors and fivewindows on each side. The center doors are carried on bag-gage-door hangers. The height from the rail to the top of theplatform is 4 ft. 4^ in. and to the top of the trolley board 11ft. 1% in. The framing of the sweeper is of yellow pine withside sills plated with 5^-in. x 8-in. steel. The truck has a wheel- woodworking tools, such as a car mortiser, planer, saws, shaper,lathe and a Universal Fay & Egan machine, all of which willbe belt-driven from below the floor. The mac
. Electric railway journal . ong and 7 ft. 8% in, wide. Thecab is vestibuled at each end and has two sliding doors and fivewindows on each side. The center doors are carried on bag-gage-door hangers. The height from the rail to the top of theplatform is 4 ft. 4^ in. and to the top of the trolley board 11ft. 1% in. The framing of the sweeper is of yellow pine withside sills plated with 5^-in. x 8-in. steel. The truck has a wheel- woodworking tools, such as a car mortiser, planer, saws, shaper,lathe and a Universal Fay & Egan machine, all of which willbe belt-driven from below the floor. The machine shop equip-ment has recently been enlarged by the addition of a McCabetwo-in-one lathe, which handles all steel wheel turning besides avariety of general work. The overhauling facilities are alsoto be improved by the installation of Q M S pneumatic car-raising apparatus and a car-hoisting outfit from the ColumbiaMachine Works & Malleable Iron noted in the description of the new cars the standard truck. Lehigh Valley Transit—Standard Convertible Car as Used in Warm Weather base of 6 ft. 7 in. The brooms are 35J/i in. in diameter, extend-ing 14 in. outside of the track. The two side plows, which arethoroughly braced, are 6 ft. long and are made of 54-in. plows are 24 in. high and clear the snow for 4 ft. out-side of the rail. Two Westinghouse No. 56 motors are usedfor traction and one motor of the same type for operating thebroom. The company has also adopted a combination express carand snow plow for its standard type of heavy equipment. Thelarge double-truck express cars in addition to the work carsare all equipped with the standard Russell nose and in thisway it is possible to get 12 months of the year service out of for suburban service is the Brill No. 27 The stand-ard high-speed passenger trucks are of Baldwin design. Sym-ington journal boxes are used throughout on all class oftrucks. Schoen and Standard solid steel wheels 34 in. in d
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