. The street railway review . t secretary of the DuquesneTraction Company, Pittsburg, is on his first vacationsince his connection with the company. He will visit his IT is one thing to build a tower wagon, it is anotherthing to build one that will stay together for anylength of time, and it is still another to make onethat will stand the service of a wrecking wagon. Theone illustrated in our engravings is in use on the ChicagoCity Railway, being located at the barn at Sixty-first andState streets. It is the design of G. W. Knox, the elec-trician, who gathered up the results of his extensiveex
. The street railway review . t secretary of the DuquesneTraction Company, Pittsburg, is on his first vacationsince his connection with the company. He will visit his IT is one thing to build a tower wagon, it is anotherthing to build one that will stay together for anylength of time, and it is still another to make onethat will stand the service of a wrecking wagon. Theone illustrated in our engravings is in use on the ChicagoCity Railway, being located at the barn at Sixty-first andState streets. It is the design of G. W. Knox, the elec-trician, who gathered up the results of his extensiveexperience with tower wagons, and drew the plans forthe present one which is in regular service as a wreckingwagon, answering emergency calls. It is fitted with allthe tools ordinarily put on a wreck wagon, and alsomaterial for fixing overhead work. The wagon, com-plete with tools, weighs 3,800 pounds, and is so strongand compact as to be admirably adapted to making tower is entirely of iron, and the platform is raised. THE COMBINED TOWER AND WRECKING WAGON. New Orleans home and take a trip into Mexico and Cen-tral America. Herbert Warren, the recently appointed generalmanager of the Uuluth City Railway, is a self-made man,having raised himself to his present position by his ownefforts and sterling worth. Seven years ago he was col-lector on the St. Paul City Railway. Alex. Lewis, formerly of the General Electric, hasbecome western representative of the Curtis ElectricCompany, with offices in the Monadnock building, Chi-cago. Mr. Lewis is too well known to require introduc-tion, and the Curtis motor is to be congratulated on itsintroducer. from a height of ten feet to fifteen feet and a half by achain and pulley, operated with a detachable crank atthe rear steps, and shown in the engravings. The by this crank is geared to the chain drum. Aratchet on this crank axle keeps the platform at anyposition it is left. The platform corner supports slide upand down ins
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