. The Street railway journal . ters and holdsthe walls of the tunnel in place. As fast as the shield isforced along the space is taken by the sides of the pipe,which are built up in sections and securely riveted. *^^ The second annual picnic of the employees of the UnitedRailway Company, of St. Louis, was given Aug. 30 and 31at Creve Coeur Lake. One-half of the employees attendedthe first day and the other half the second day. There was abarbecue, baseball games and athletic games of all kinds. 384 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVIIL No. 10. DEVICE FOR STOPPING CARS ON GRADES The New Jersey &
. The Street railway journal . ters and holdsthe walls of the tunnel in place. As fast as the shield isforced along the space is taken by the sides of the pipe,which are built up in sections and securely riveted. *^^ The second annual picnic of the employees of the UnitedRailway Company, of St. Louis, was given Aug. 30 and 31at Creve Coeur Lake. One-half of the employees attendedthe first day and the other half the second day. There was abarbecue, baseball games and athletic games of all kinds. 384 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVIIL No. 10. DEVICE FOR STOPPING CARS ON GRADES The New Jersey & Hudson River Railway & Ferry Com-pany operates a nunil)er of lines in Northern New Jersey andconnects with a ferry line running to West 129th Street, Man-hattan. In climbing the sides of the Palisades the trackstake a zigzag course up the face of the cliff and ascend at anaverage grade of about 7 per cent. As a precautionary measure in order to avoid any possi-bility of accident should a car run away, the company some. LEXER FOR AUTOMATICALLY RESETTING SWITCH TOSANDED TRACK—NEW JERSEY & HUDSONRIVER RAILWAY time ago installed on all of the steepest grades a simple andingenious stopping device which will be understood from theillustrations. This consists of a switch or siding track therails of which are always covered with a layer of sand. Theswitch point at the entrance to this sanded track is alwaysopen to the main line, so that should a car get beyond thecontrol of the motorman it would necessarily take the switchand run into the sanded track, thereby coming to a stop made to demonstrate the efliciency of the arrangement instopping runaway cars. The sand track on which the testswere made is located on a 7 per cent grade and the approachto the sand track for a distance of 1500 ft. is also on a 7 percent grade. The sand track has a switch at the lower end, sothat cars which pass into the sand track can be brought backon to the main running rails without backing out. The sandt
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