. The Street railway journal . e pecks ofvegetables with her, and wanted to take the whole lot aboard;but the car sailed merrily away and left her angrily expostu-lating. When an American sees one of the street cars for the firsttime he grins a bit and then looks around to see if any one iswatching him. A Filipino stares at it as though he believesthe devil was somewhere inside. A Chinaman doesnt look atthe car at all—he stares at the wire above and wonders whatmakes the car go. A trolley car isnt so very different from an automobile. Isaw one standing in the middle of the Escolta the other da
. The Street railway journal . e pecks ofvegetables with her, and wanted to take the whole lot aboard;but the car sailed merrily away and left her angrily expostu-lating. When an American sees one of the street cars for the firsttime he grins a bit and then looks around to see if any one iswatching him. A Filipino stares at it as though he believesthe devil was somewhere inside. A Chinaman doesnt look atthe car at all—he stares at the wire above and wonders whatmakes the car go. A trolley car isnt so very different from an automobile. Isaw one standing in the middle of the Escolta the other day,while three men lay on their backs under it and softly sworeas they tried to see why it wouldnt run. 392 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVI. No. n. NEW COUPLERS ON THE NORTHWESTERN ELEVATED,CHICAGO All the cars of the Northwestern Elevated Railroad Com-pany in Chicago are now being equipped with a new type ofvertical plane automatic coupler which is the inventionof R. B. Stearns, superintendent of the road, and F. D. Ward,. FIG. 1. -DETAILS OF VERTICAL-PLANE TYPE COUPLING FORAND TRAILERS formerly master mechanic of that road, but now with the Un-derground Electric Railways Company, of London, England. The company has equipped its 254 cars with this type ofcoupler, and all cars of the Underground Electric Railways Figs. 1 and 2, and illustrations, Figs. 3, 4 and 5. It is avertical plane coupler which requires no separate link, al-though the projecting parts, shown in the illustrations, arefastened in by pins and can be removed just as a link canshould they wear out or break. It will be seen from thedrawing that each coupler has a projecting part, whichslides into a recess in the opposite coupler and is en-gaged by a notched pin, one segment of whichhas been removed. As the projecting partstrikes this pin in entering, it revolves the pina fraction of a revolution so that it can passand catch. The pin revolves back to itsoriginal position by virtue of the pressure ofleaf sprin
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