. Electric railway gazette . and as workshops for the manufacture of specialties of thiskind, they are models that reflect much credit on good tasteand mechanical skill. 92 THE STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. May, 1887 The Meigs Elevated Railway. On reference to pages 52 and 53 of the Street RailwayGazette (March, 18S7), a general idea may be obtained of. & Fig. 3 represents the Meigs truck, showing the generalmethod of construction. On the left-hand side a portion ofa double-flanged wheel is used to show the utter absurdityof such a wheel. N, jaws attached to platform oftruck to carry axle. G
. Electric railway gazette . and as workshops for the manufacture of specialties of thiskind, they are models that reflect much credit on good tasteand mechanical skill. 92 THE STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. May, 1887 The Meigs Elevated Railway. On reference to pages 52 and 53 of the Street RailwayGazette (March, 18S7), a general idea may be obtained of. & Fig. 3 represents the Meigs truck, showing the generalmethod of construction. On the left-hand side a portion ofa double-flanged wheel is used to show the utter absurdityof such a wheel. N, jaws attached to platform oftruck to carry axle. G, lip fasten-ing turn-table to top of truck. B and C, spring boxes. dotted lines through axles, shownas radial lines leading from theupper rails, about which sidethrusts must turn trucks, thrustingengendered force down centrelines of wheels. Fig. 4 represents a cross-sec-tion of a street, showing that theMeigs railway does not disturblight and air; that it presents theleast cross-section of any railway,and that its trucks, astride of thetrack 48 inches, render its carsabsolutely safe against derailment,even at a moment of track is an open post-sup-ported girder, 171^ ^ in. atits widest part overhead, and but50 inches in depth. We have already, in a formernumber, referred to he track androlling plant of the Meigs rai
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