. The Street railway journal . uipment, the storage-air system was ac-cordingly adopted, and has now been applied to all of itsdouble-truck cars and to many of the single-truck remainder of the single-truck cars are now being rapidlyequipped, from three to five trucks being completed per day. An accompanying photograph illustrates a typical applica-tion of the storage-air equipment to the truck of a single-truckcar, this one having been photographed when just completedand ready to be placed in service. As may be noted, the twohigh-pressure storage tanks are carried in the middle
. The Street railway journal . uipment, the storage-air system was ac-cordingly adopted, and has now been applied to all of itsdouble-truck cars and to many of the single-truck remainder of the single-truck cars are now being rapidlyequipped, from three to five trucks being completed per day. An accompanying photograph illustrates a typical applica-tion of the storage-air equipment to the truck of a single-truckcar, this one having been photographed when just completedand ready to be placed in service. As may be noted, the twohigh-pressure storage tanks are carried in the middle of thetruck upon cross frame members between the motors. Thetanks are connected together by the charging hose line whichprojects upon either side, ending in hose couplings next to theoutside, for charging at car houses. The auxiliary or servicereservoir is hung beyond the end of the frame at the leading orforward end of the car, the air supply to this reservoir beingpiped from the high-pressure tanks through a reducing valve,. VIEW OF ONE OF THE STANDARD TRUCKS USED UNDER THE SINGLE-TRUCK CARS AT DETROIT, OF THE STORAGE AIR-BRAKE APPARATUS SHOWING APPLICATION equipped with a color grinder for facilitating the preparationof paints. STORAGE AIR BRAKESDetroit is looked to as practically the birthplace of the stor-age air-brake system. Its first application was upon the carsof the Detroit & Pontiac Railway, a 26-mile interurban linebetween the two above cities, which is now a part of the De-troit United Railway- This system was equipped in 1898 by theMagann Air Brake Company, two high-pressure storage reser- as shown at V- The connections to the motormans valve inthe front cab of the car are made through flexible hose coup-lings, as are shown projecting over the service tank at thefront in the illustration. A connection is made from the stor-age tanks to the high-pressure gage in the cab through the54-in. pipe, which is pivoted back toward the middle of thetruck so that the tiltin
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