. Electric railway review . tringers are 8 by 8 inches in section, withbolsters underneath. On top of these stringers are rails madeof % by 2 inch iron. The carriage was made from an oldtruss taken out of a dismantled building. It is built of 4-inchangle irons and was cut to fit the span, which is 12 feet. Thecarriage is five feet wide and runs on 8-inch wheels havingtheir journals in pieces of I-beams forming the ends of the ■■;■ • — ■ - L- gffifoM: _j! ■ ^ /■ ■ - «•«<=««— Mr j, • Tampa Shops—Plan Showing Location of Overhead Runwayfor Trolley Hoist. carriage. Sections of 60-pound T-ra
. Electric railway review . tringers are 8 by 8 inches in section, withbolsters underneath. On top of these stringers are rails madeof % by 2 inch iron. The carriage was made from an oldtruss taken out of a dismantled building. It is built of 4-inchangle irons and was cut to fit the span, which is 12 feet. Thecarriage is five feet wide and runs on 8-inch wheels havingtheir journals in pieces of I-beams forming the ends of the ■■;■ • — ■ - L- gffifoM: _j! ■ ^ /■ ■ - «•«<=««— Mr j, • Tampa Shops—Plan Showing Location of Overhead Runwayfor Trolley Hoist. carriage. Sections of 60-pound T-rails are laid across thetop of the carriage supporting the two 5-ton chain hoists. With this rigging two men have changed wheels in 1%hours, while with the old way it took four men to jack upthe car and perform the same task. Some of our standards and specialties are as. follows:American inserted brakeshoe; Decatur car wheels, 20, 30 and33 inches in diameter; 12-foot trolley poles with 22 pounds. Tampa Shops- -Hoist and Chain Blocks for Handling CarBodies. tension 16 feet from the rail, using 5-inch Kalamazoo wheels;body color, orange yellow, which is found very satisfactoryfor our local conditions, the paint and varnish being made byLowe Brothers, Dayton, O. Castile soap only is used forwashing cars. We find it very good practice to groove thearmature bearing on the commutator end, thus keeping theoil from flowing out. Our rolling stock comprises about 60 cars, four of whichare of the Brill semi-convertible type. March 28, 1908. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 391 THE GIBBS AUTOMATIC COUPLER. W. A. Gibbs, district manager Ohio Electric Railway Com-pany, Columbus, O., has designed and thoroughly tested animproved coupler head, which he is preparing to put on themarket. The coupler is of the M. C. B. type, differing only in vertically because when the end of the guard arm strikeseither the top or bottom of the pocket it can go no couplers are so
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