Identifier: streetrailwayrev08amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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o photographs were taken of the snow heaps beforeand after we had completed our work on them. It wouldbe difficult to believe, after remembrance has past, that thestreets in any city were piled so full of snow as some of ourswere during this last storm. As I have said, we have two sweepers, a switchingmotor, used for switching purposes but convertible into a many places, because we have no lines which are not badlycut up with grades, some being even as steep as lo per cent.Several managers have written us describing their meth-ods and apparatus in detail. On one road with 20 miles oftrack there are no plows or sweepers, but the cars areequipped with track cleaners which it is stated readily keepthe rail free from snow. In case the snow gets too deepbetween the rails, an A-shaped drag made of 2 in. x 12 in. xlo-ft. oak planks is fastened to the rear draw head. If areal blizzard comes and there are bad drifts which the scrap-ers and drag can not clear out, the cars are run into the barn
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TAUNTON SNOW PLOW ON THE MILWAUKEE, RACINE & KENOSHA. snow plow, and eight or ten horse snow plows. All ofthese were built in our own shops. The switching motor is a 60-h. p. apparatus, and themotors are two Rae, or Detroit, motors of 30 h. p. each.The motors which operate the sweeper are two Edison No.12, which are 25 h. p. each. The sweepers are similar tothose built elsewhere; the brushes being composed of rat-tan, placed in rollers and cut about 33 in. long. Thebrushes are so arranged at an angle with the track as totake the snow from the center of the way and throw it out-side, clear from the rails. They are very effective. We use a good deal of salt to keep our rails in suitablecondition. Salt is a most disagreeable adjunct and leavesthe streets in very bad condition, but it is an aid to electricrailway operation which cannot be supplemented or dupli-cated. We regret its use, but have been unable to find asubstitute. We would have great difficulty, at times, tooperate withou

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