. Electric railway review . Standardizing Brakeshoes—Present Shoe and Head at the Left, with Flanged Shoe and Attachment Conforming to Recommended Practice at the Right. proposed to use a brakehead and shoe similar to those nowstandard for steam railroads. As the wheel tread also recom-mended was 3 inches wide, the shoe would be designed 2%inches wide and in detail, as shown in the illustrations ac-companying the report presented elsewhere in this the committee recommended the use of a shoe withoutflange it also included in its report a recommended design replacing these by one whi
. Electric railway review . Standardizing Brakeshoes—Present Shoe and Head at the Left, with Flanged Shoe and Attachment Conforming to Recommended Practice at the Right. proposed to use a brakehead and shoe similar to those nowstandard for steam railroads. As the wheel tread also recom-mended was 3 inches wide, the shoe would be designed 2%inches wide and in detail, as shown in the illustrations ac-companying the report presented elsewhere in this the committee recommended the use of a shoe withoutflange it also included in its report a recommended design replacing these by one which would be designed to hold therecommended standard shoe. It also should be noted thatthis shoe is interchangeable with the type adopted by theMaster Car Builders Association and now universally usedon steam railway equipments, the attachment features of thesebeing the same. The illustration presented on the oppositepage, and which was reproduced from a line draw-. standardizing Brakeshoes—Present Practice Shown at the Right, with Flanged Shoe and Attachment Conforming to Recommendation at the Left. of shoe with (lunge for use on trucks without wus no recommendation made as lo the attachmentof the brakehead to the brukebeam. since, necessarily, this por-tion of the head must take the form of the various types ofbeams which will support it. The committee, however, didrecommend that with the 3 inch tread wheels the center-to-center distance between brakeheads on the same beam shouldmeasure 59 i inches. \\\ ii. Evans, master mechanic of the Indianapolis ing, shows 10 combinations of brakeshoes and heads. Thefive combinations on the left-hand side of the illustration arebrakeheads with shoes, each of which requires both rightand left handed patterns, and none of which is interchangeablewilli the others. It also should be noted that none of the shoeson the left-hand side of the illustration is reversible The five combinations shown
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