. Electric railway gazette . stress and together making a very effectivejoint. Owing to lugs on the yokes, and to the tierods supporting the slot rail being half way betweenthe yokes, the tram rail joints had to be onequarter ot a yoke space, or thirteen and a halfinches, away from the yoke center, being thus notexactly suspended or supported. The result wassatisfactory. All slot rail joints were made on the yokes andno splice plates were used; only a larger andstronger washer being placed on the tie rod sup-porting the joint. This has answered fairly drop forged three-hole splice plate
. Electric railway gazette . stress and together making a very effectivejoint. Owing to lugs on the yokes, and to the tierods supporting the slot rail being half way betweenthe yokes, the tram rail joints had to be onequarter ot a yoke space, or thirteen and a halfinches, away from the yoke center, being thus notexactly suspended or supported. The result wassatisfactory. All slot rail joints were made on the yokes andno splice plates were used; only a larger andstronger washer being placed on the tie rod sup-porting the joint. This has answered fairly drop forged three-hole splice plate joint, origin-ally designed for the Broadway slot rail, is beingused on the uptown extensions with promise ofvery good results. (To be continued.) GOODWIN ADJUSTABLE ADVEETISIN&GATE. The accompanying cuts illustrate an adjustableadvertising street-car gate for which a patent wasrecently issued to L. R. Goodwin, secretary andtreasurer of the Citizens Street Railroad Company,of Memphis, Tenn. Fig. 1 illustrates the simple. Fig. 1. Goodwin Adjustable Advertising Gate. construction of the gate, and the advertising sideis shown in Fig. 2. The patent covers a solid facedgate with the advertising feature if desired. It isapparent that by means of turnbuckles it is adjust-able, so that it may be used on any width of platform
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