. Electric railway journal . The writer has tried variousplans for using series motors for constant speed work,but the one just described is the most convenient andflexible, and has proved to be the most satisfactory ofany of them. Angle-Iron Posts for Car PaintersPlatform IN THE paint shop of the Empire State Railroad, atLake Junction, near Syracuse, N. Y., rows of posts likethose shown in the illustrations are installed betweentracks for the purpose of supporting planks from whichthe painters work. These posts are set a couple of feetin the concrete floorand extend about 1\ft. above the floo
. Electric railway journal . The writer has tried variousplans for using series motors for constant speed work,but the one just described is the most convenient andflexible, and has proved to be the most satisfactory ofany of them. Angle-Iron Posts for Car PaintersPlatform IN THE paint shop of the Empire State Railroad, atLake Junction, near Syracuse, N. Y., rows of posts likethose shown in the illustrations are installed betweentracks for the purpose of supporting planks from whichthe painters work. These posts are set a couple of feetin the concrete floorand extend about 1\ft. above the posts are madeof 2-in. x 2-in. x T\-in. angles connectedby 2-in. x i-in. flatsteel pieces. Theseare riveted to theangles and arespaced on 15-in. cen-ters from the bottomto the top of theposts. The bracketsfor the planks are also made up of angle iron of thesame size as that used in the posts, the upper part ofthe bracket being 20 in. long. The back of the bracketis formed of a piece of flat steel, 2 in. wide, with the. CLOSE-UP VIEW OF BRACKET
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