. American engineer and railroad journal . the completionof courses at technical schools may be made most valu-ible, andthe practice is to be commended and encouraged. This is aplan with which the friends of technical education are in heartysympathy. March, 1898. AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 89 THE PERFECT PASSENGER OAR TRUCK. rhotofiinplis of a three-spring Perfect truck and one ofan eifjlit wlieel car for (lie Buffiilo & Niagara Falls Electric|{;iihv; Coiiipjiny litted with trucks of a similar design haveliiMii received from (he buildere, the .1. (!. Itrill ofriiihidelpliiii. Ilu; c;ir
. American engineer and railroad journal . the completionof courses at technical schools may be made most valu-ible, andthe practice is to be commended and encouraged. This is aplan with which the friends of technical education are in heartysympathy. March, 1898. AND RAILROAD JOURNAL. 89 THE PERFECT PASSENGER OAR TRUCK. rhotofiinplis of a three-spring Perfect truck and one ofan eifjlit wlieel car for (lie Buffiilo & Niagara Falls Electric|{;iihv; Coiiipjiny litted with trucks of a similar design haveliiMii received from (he buildere, the .1. (!. Itrill ofriiihidelpliiii. Ilu; c;ir, which is suital)le for city, suliurban and result Is remarkable, and we are pleased to say that we know of no safer or better truck in the market In our issue of August, 1896, page 193, we gave severalviews, together with a descriplion of the truck, and calledattenlion to the special features, which may be summed upas follows; The spring base for this truck Is unusually wide,steadying the car and reducing the rolling on the Brill Cars-Buffalo & Niagara Falls Electric Railway. iuterurlijiii service, is 29 feet long and weighs 14,500 pounds,the weiglit for each truck without motors being 5,100 is in use under very severe conditions of service, combin-ing those of the lines in city streets and also those of opencountry running between Buffalo and Niagara Falls. The[leculiar conditions require trucks which, with wheels adapt-ed to city street rails, sliall be equally satisfactory undercomparatively high speeds while running on trucks of this car are known as No. 27, and it was the equalizing bar is carried on springs and is supported bytwo sets; there are three sets of springs carrying the fullload, and they are arranged in what would be termed inseries in electric parlance. The load is equalized amongthe wheels and almost all of it is carried upon springs. Itwill be reniendiered that the side frames are forgings of thetype long ago adopted for loc
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