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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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Ili;. -STANDARD IMiENCH OPEN CAR. motors. The miscellaneous equipment includes 188 snow plows ofwhich 43 are of the Taunton type. The others were inade by theCompany. Fig. 36 shows the Taunton 1899-1900 model and Fig. 37the Taunton plow with the Boston Elevated Railway Gos, improve-ments; these are standard on the Boston Elevated. Fig. 38 is froma view of a plow with the fluke raised. The lever attachment wasdevised to relieve the men of the work of holding down the fluke,which was usually done by riding on the wing. This lever is likea wagon tongue and is pivoted to the top of the wing with the up-per end passing through a ring attached to the edge of the roof.From the upper end a chain descends to a foot lever, which may beoperated froiu the rear platform or from within the cab, by meansof which the win^ may be held down with i)ressure sulVicient (•> hi>l(l
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FIG. 3--TAUNTOX PLOW WITH IMPROVEMENTS. Various types of trucks are employed. These consist of i,75four-wheel trucks, 22 Robinson radial, (178 West End swivel, 292Bemis, 131 maximum traction, including those of the Brill andPeckham make, and 7 miscellaneous trucks. The open cars are it to its work withoiU exposing the men. .\ helical spring insertedin the chain near the top provides an clastic motion for the wing. The latest addition to the snow plow e(;uipment is what is termedby the comjiany a parlor snow plow; this was built in the com- Arn. IS, lyoo.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 189 li.uiys sliii;i allcr a iKjiIk suhk^^IiI I3 In; ;)icsii)ciil. anil islillcci iii> lipi- ilic accomiiiodatif)!! of llic presidi-iu ami his fricMidsvvlniK-vcr lie sliall dionsc to kuI a practical dcmoiistratioii of thebest methods of fiKhtiiiK snow. The cab is liiiislicd with interiorai)artnients with ciisliioii seats and rilj^crvalion rooms and jjro-visioii is made for keeping it warm ;ind inmfortablc, Th

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