. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . INTERIOR OF SNOW SHED ON THEC.\NADI.\N R.\IL\V.\Y. than four or five months in the with the beginning of theconstruction of the road came the Rotaryand the road has never been closed formore than a few hours. Indeed the West-ern roads are as a rule kept clearer thansome of the Eastern roads where there isless snow, and, of course, less efficient de-vices to meet an emergency. The repre-sentatives of foreign countries were notslow to see the merits of the Rotary, an
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . INTERIOR OF SNOW SHED ON THEC.\NADI.\N R.\IL\V.\Y. than four or five months in the with the beginning of theconstruction of the road came the Rotaryand the road has never been closed formore than a few hours. Indeed the West-ern roads are as a rule kept clearer thansome of the Eastern roads where there isless snow, and, of course, less efficient de-vices to meet an emergency. The repre-sentatives of foreign countries were notslow to see the merits of the Rotary, andits adoption in European railways wasrapid and general. It may be well to add, however, that theRotary snow plow did not spring into per-fection in a single day or year. In itspresent perfected form, a> constructed bythe Anierican Locomotive Company, areproduction of a photograph of which isshown in our frontispiece, it is the resultof twenty years of practical experiencecombined with the best mechanical ROTARY SNOW PLOW CLEARING A SIDINC. is of the locomotive t) pc with liclpairefirebox, and has ample heating surfaceto give a good margin of steam capacityto meet all requirements. The wheel isdriven by means of bevel gears on themam shaft and on the engine shafts. The wheel is composed of ten hollowcone-shaped scoops. Each scoop is openits entire length on the front side throughwhich the snow is taken in. Knives arehinged on each side of the opening, ar-ranged so as to adjust themselves auto-matically into cutting position. Theu heel is encased in a drum with a squarefront or hood. At the bottom the hoodprojects a few inches in advance of thecutting blades, while at the centre oftlie wheel, the knives are the first to en-counter the snow. As a result, the wholefront of the Rotary is a sharp, cuttingedge. The shute in the top of the drum is the design of the flanger and ice-cut-ters. Since the improvements in theirconstruction it has been found impos-sible for the Ro
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