. The Street railway journal . alarge hoppers. The bottom framing is unusually substantial,and includes long leaf yellow pine side sills 5% ins. x 7^ ins.,with sill plates on the outside 7 ins. x % in. Heavy under-trusses are anchored at the ends of the open style body length over the body is 30 ft., and over all, 40 ft. 5^2 width over the sills is 8 ft. 4 ins. The length from thepoint to the side of the adjustable plow is 8 ft., and the width,2 ft. 6 ins. The length from the point to the side of the upperplows is 7 ft., and the width, 1 ft. 6 ins. The length of theieveler
. The Street railway journal . alarge hoppers. The bottom framing is unusually substantial,and includes long leaf yellow pine side sills 5% ins. x 7^ ins.,with sill plates on the outside 7 ins. x % in. Heavy under-trusses are anchored at the ends of the open style body length over the body is 30 ft., and over all, 40 ft. 5^2 width over the sills is 8 ft. 4 ins. The length from thepoint to the side of the adjustable plow is 8 ft., and the width,2 ft. 6 ins. The length from the point to the side of the upperplows is 7 ft., and the width, 1 ft. 6 ins. The length of theievelers is 7 ft. The car is mounted on Brill No. 27-G trucks,having a 4-ft. wheel base, 33-in. wheels and 4^2-in, axles. t December 24, 1904.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. PORTABLE TROLLEY POLE PLANER The accompanying illustrations show a very ingenious ar-rangement devised in California for planing trolley poles. TheCalifornia Gas & Electric Corporation had purchased some300 square sawed redwood poles for use on its electric railway. TROLLEY POLE BEING PLANED BY MOTOR PLANER system in Sacramento. It was impracticable to take the polesto a mill to be planed, so it was decided to have them planedby hand. However, the contractor who bid on the job esti-mated that it would cost over a dollar per pole. As this figureseemed exorbitant, Mr. Snyder, foreman of the railway shops,got busy, and devised the portable planer illustrated. This
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