. The Street railway journal . inst the road during the year 1902, and liethanks the employees for having done their duty. He adds thatnot one of the accidents which happened on the road duringiyo2 can Ik- attributed to neglect of duty. 478 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXL No. 13. SNOW FIGHTING IN BUFFALO Probably as severe conditions exist in the vicinity of Buffaloduring the winter as in any other section of the country, andit is certain that the International Railway Company, of Buf-falo, has taken as great, if not greater, precautions againsthaving its lines tied up by snow as any other e
. The Street railway journal . inst the road during the year 1902, and liethanks the employees for having done their duty. He adds thatnot one of the accidents which happened on the road duringiyo2 can Ik- attributed to neglect of duty. 478 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXL No. 13. SNOW FIGHTING IN BUFFALO Probably as severe conditions exist in the vicinity of Buffaloduring the winter as in any other section of the country, andit is certain that the International Railway Company, of Buf-falo, has taken as great, if not greater, precautions againsthaving its lines tied up by snow as any other electric railway. two double-ended Thomson-Houston sweepers with revolvingbrushes are operated for this purpose. The company has builtat its own shops, under the Ruggles patents, seven rotaryplows of the type shown in the illustration. These plows aredouble-ended with single trucks. They are equipped with 1000-General Electric motors on the axles and with 800-GeneralElectric motors on the flyers and vanes. These plows are about. ONE OF THE SINGLE-TRUCK PLOWS The art of snow fighting in Buffalo has been reduced to almostan exact science, and during the heaviest storms of the lastwinter the management has been extremely successful in keep-ing its cars on their regular schedule. The International Rail-way Company includes among its subsidiary companies theBuffalo Railway Company, the Buffalo & Niagara Falls Elec-tric Railway, the Buffalo & Lockport Railway, the Lockport &Olcott Railway and the Niagara Falls & Suspension BridgeRailway, so that it has both city and interurban conditions tocontend with, and a great variety of equipment is required incarrying out the methods which have been adopted for securingan open track on all the lines at all times. Some fifty-two dis-tinct pieces of apparatus are in commission during the winter,and at times nearly all of them are out upon the road. For ordinary snow falls and city work generally there aretwenty-five plows of the type shown in the
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