. The Street railway journal . lly selected is remarkable for its extreme sim-plicity as well as effectiveness. It consists merely of a shortincline built up of rough timbers, as shown, and so located thata runaway car will slide up upon it, the lower parts of the truckframe coming in contact with and riding upon the side effect of this is to cause the car to be lifted off of its wheelsand slid along upon the timbers until the momentum of therapidly moving car is expended in the friction of sliding. Theframework of the slide is strongly and stiffly built, and is an-chored securely
. The Street railway journal . lly selected is remarkable for its extreme sim-plicity as well as effectiveness. It consists merely of a shortincline built up of rough timbers, as shown, and so located thata runaway car will slide up upon it, the lower parts of the truckframe coming in contact with and riding upon the side effect of this is to cause the car to be lifted off of its wheelsand slid along upon the timbers until the momentum of therapidly moving car is expended in the friction of sliding. Theframework of the slide is strongly and stiffly built, and is an-chored securely to the track. The character of construction isclearly shown in the front view. Recently an opportunity was afforded for severely testing thedevice. A large amount of slippery mud had been washed uponthe rails by street cleaners, and a car descending the gradebecame unmanageable and ran away. The brakes would nothold the car on account of the condition of the rails. The carwas going at a comparatively high rate of speed when it. FRONT VIEW OF CAR STOP reached the terminal and ran on to the emergency stop. Itsspeed was, perhaps, not so high as might have been the casewith released brakes, or in case of an icy rail, but was suf-ficient to have occasioned another very serious accident if theinclined plane stop had not been in place. The result was that June 4, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 8=11 the car made the incline and slid upon it easily, coming to agradual and gentle stop. The effect upon the passengers washardly more severe than would have been the case in the eventof a stop on a level by reversing of the motors, and no incon-venience was caused. Later on, when it was desired to placethe car in service again, another car was coupled to it and easilydragged it off of the incline onto the track without assistance,and the car was immediately placed in service without thenecessity of repairs. Too much cannot be said in favor of this method of pro-viding for possible accidents o
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