. The street railway review . IIG. ,< .SANII IlRYINi; HOUSK. diameter by 5 (1, high, and is supported with ihe lowir end 21 the car lloor, making it more crinveiiioiit for Iho operatorto place sand in the hopper. Two lengths of 2-in. rubber hose are attached to nozzles belowthe car floor so that two joints can be cleaned at once. A waterlight sand is provided. From this the sand runs into atray and is then shoveled into the blast apparatus. The position of the motorman and the location of the controllers,switch, fuse box and brake lever arc shown in Figs. 5 and 6, which ■
. The street railway review . IIG. ,< .SANII IlRYINi; HOUSK. diameter by 5 (1, high, and is supported with ihe lowir end 21 the car lloor, making it more crinveiiioiit for Iho operatorto place sand in the hopper. Two lengths of 2-in. rubber hose are attached to nozzles belowthe car floor so that two joints can be cleaned at once. A waterlight sand is provided. From this the sand runs into atray and is then shoveled into the blast apparatus. The position of the motorman and the location of the controllers,switch, fuse box and brake lever arc shown in Figs. 5 and 6, which ■^^ ^^ iT-r<iil i. ISjj.—O i^ iec AB !( , m 33. FIO, l-DROP HAMMER. are from photographs taken before the compressor was covered 7 shows the car as completed. The men using the sand blast wear canvas helmets, as shown inone of the engravings; to further protect them small pipes arecarried from the air tank to the helmets so that the sand attempt-ing to enter under the cape will be blown away by the currentof air. .\s considerable luaniitics of sand will be rcjuircd m connectionwith the rail welding, the chief engineer of the company, Mr. D. , has designed a sand drying house shown par-tially completed in Fig. 8, The house is 9 x 12 ft. and 6 ft. high,locateil near the pond and tables, for cooling the condensing waterused in the jiower station. The hopper extends along one side of thesand house and holds s cu. yd, of sand. On the floor of the sandhouse are 53 sections of i-in. pipe, 16 ft. long, spaced 2 in. betweencenters. These pipes are screwed into an 8-iii. header 10 ft. long,which is connected to the d
Size: 2076px × 1204px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., book, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectstreetrailroads
