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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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rd projecting belowthe platform. The width of the plowed way is regulatedby a chain-guy attached to a locking lever as shown. The track plow is a short V-shaped plow resting on thehead of the rail. This clears special work and high jointsby being supported on a spring, acting in the line of move-ment of the car. The North Jersey Street Railway Com-pany reports such good results from the performance ofthis plow that the company is building a number of others. published in the Street Railway Journal. The un-limited current available for lighting and power to propelthe floats makes it possible to secure finer spectaculareffects than would otherwise be possible. This was shownduring the special carnival, held June 28 in Milwaukee, inwhich the trolley current was used for this purpose to agreater extent probably than ever before, and which wasgenerally regarded as one of the most successful nightpageants ever held on this continent. The parade consisted of twenty floats, placed on electric
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ILLUMINATED STREET, MILWAUKEE trucks, and lighted by 6000 lights of different colors. Theyconsisted of a variety of subjects, presented without anyaim at continuity of idea, but solely for their picturesquebeauty and scope for fantastic display of form, color andeffulgent light. The first float was a fac-shnile of the battleship Wiscon-sin, and, under the strong lights that focused on the spot,she seemed a real ship afloat on a white sea. Severalmusical chariots, decorated with swans necks, whoseheads extended far in advance of the charioteers, dispersedradiance and music at the same time. The float carrying yo6 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XVI. No. 31. Rex was draped with foliage of tropical abundance. Theking stood up in the midst of four columns, surroundedby hundreds of lights, which added an effect of royalsplendor to his luxurious and majestic appearance. A striking float was that in which the Goddess of Lightstood on a sun bristling with golden rays, covered with

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