. The Street railway journal . arts—one, that of rendering a car approximately in-combustible under ordinary service conditions, and theother in case of accident. The latter presents the greaterdifficulty unless, perhaps, the electrical equipment can beso arranged as to be automatically controlled. For service conditions it would probably be sufficientif the under side of the car bottom is protected. Charles S. Gawthrop. Replacing a Derailed Car Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 12, Street Railway Journal: I w*as recently a witness of an ingenious method of replac-ing a derailed car in this c
. The Street railway journal . arts—one, that of rendering a car approximately in-combustible under ordinary service conditions, and theother in case of accident. The latter presents the greaterdifficulty unless, perhaps, the electrical equipment can beso arranged as to be automatically controlled. For service conditions it would probably be sufficientif the under side of the car bottom is protected. Charles S. Gawthrop. Replacing a Derailed Car Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 12, Street Railway Journal: I w*as recently a witness of an ingenious method of replac-ing a derailed car in this city, and as the method adoptedmight prove applicable elsewhere, I will describe the planemployed. The car was derailed on Washington Street (seeenclosed sketch), and was equipped with maximum tractiontrucks. The rear truck left therails soon after the car had passedthe switch of a track extending in -to Concord Street, and when Isaw the car the front truck was onthe track, while the rear truckwas between the two tracks, both. in the position shown by solid lines in the sketch. As will beseen, the front end of the car projected over the up track,stopping traffic on both lines, and as Washington Streetis one of the main thoroughfares to the Bridge, a generalblock of cars on that street was imminent. Fortunately, the switchman stationed at the corner ofWashington and Concord Streets immediately suggested aquick method of putting the car back on the track, whichwas immediately adopted. A line was connected to the backof the frame of the forward truck, and the other end wasattached to the back of a car which was standing on Con-cord Street. Both cars were started up and the derailed carsoon took the position shown as dotted in the sketch. Theline was then attached to the forward end of the derailedtruck and the front wheels were dragged on to the whole operation took only a few minutes, and while itmay not have been particularly beneficial to the wheels ofthe derailed tr
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