. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ELECTRIC CRAKE FOR STREET CARS. convention may be had by members bywriting the Committee on Arrangements,which is as follows: £. W- Pratt, chair-man; C. B. Conger arid S. J. Bailiea]/ (Old LocoiniftELECTRIC BRAKE WITH SHOES WHEELS .\XD hotel club-room. Adjoining the conven-tion hall will be two large rooms for sup-ply mens wares and up-to-date air-brakekinks which members may desire to bringwith them to the convention. Arrangements have been made with thePullman Company, w
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ELECTRIC CRAKE FOR STREET CARS. convention may be had by members bywriting the Committee on Arrangements,which is as follows: £. W- Pratt, chair-man; C. B. Conger arid S. J. Bailiea]/ (Old LocoiniftELECTRIC BRAKE WITH SHOES WHEELS .\XD hotel club-room. Adjoining the conven-tion hall will be two large rooms for sup-ply mens wares and up-to-date air-brakekinks which members may desire to bringwith them to the convention. Arrangements have been made with thePullman Company, whereby special half- Electric Brake With Combined Railand Wheel Shoes. The steady advance of greater weightsin street cars, since the introduction ofelectricity as a motive power, has createda demand for power brakes on cars of thischaracter. The need of a better brake a nail or knife-blade The result is thatthe shoe drags along the rail, comes mcontact with the lower end of the brakelever and forces the shoe against thewheel. The top end of the lever is con-nected by a chain, running over pulleys,which will pull the other shoe up to thewheel. Fig. 2 shows the chain extendingto the other truck, applying the brakeshoes there. To release the brake, thecurrent is cut off from the
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