. The Street railway journal . iiif^le trucks shown they ride with very little osc llation andmuch easier than when mounted on double tiucks. The same truckis used in Baltimore on t ie City Passenger Railway, under thirtyfoot cars with six foot six inch wheel base, with eminently satis-factory results. The method by which Mr. Peckham has solved this problemwithout increasing the distance between the car floor and thetrack js illustrated in Fig. i. The angle of the truss extension PECKHAM DOUBLE CUSHIONED .SWIVET, TRUCK. The new Peckham double cushioned swivel truck is illustratedin Fig. 4. For
. The Street railway journal . iiif^le trucks shown they ride with very little osc llation andmuch easier than when mounted on double tiucks. The same truckis used in Baltimore on t ie City Passenger Railway, under thirtyfoot cars with six foot six inch wheel base, with eminently satis-factory results. The method by which Mr. Peckham has solved this problemwithout increasing the distance between the car floor and thetrack js illustrated in Fig. i. The angle of the truss extension PECKHAM DOUBLE CUSHIONED .SWIVET, TRUCK. The new Peckham double cushioned swivel truck is illustratedin Fig. 4. For a long time the Peckliam Motor Truck & WheelCompan) declined to budd a swivel truck, but as the demand frominterurban railway comjjanies was for a very much longer anilheavier car than th>se employed in city servire, and one whichwould run at a much higher rate of speed, Mr. Peckham, after care-fully studying the conditions and requirements of this service,brought out a swivel truck. In it he has combined wliat he con-. FIG. 4.—DOUBLE CUSHIONED SWIVEL TRUCK. rods has not been changed in any way to secure a longer of terminating on the side bar of the truck, they have beendropped below the latter and are practically continuous from oneend of the spring support to the latter. They thus make the lowerhorizontal member of a truss frame, of which the upper member isthe car sill and the vertical members or tie pieces are the four ped-estal bolts and the two additional spring bolts. A slight change in siders the most essential requirements for service of this kind. Itsmain features are great .■trength, simplicity of construction, easyriding and a powerful braking device. In general plan the truck follows very closely the lines of thesteam railwaj truck used under the Empire State exjjress on theNew York Central Railroad. In fact, it is the production of thesame designer, and the characteristic of the latter truck, the use of
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