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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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factory is well equip-ped in every particular for the accomplishment ofspecial work, making every part of a light car fromwheel to handle. At the Worlds Fair the Sheffield Company has a The Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Companyhas in its railway exhibition a side equalizing street rail-way truck of the Sheffield make. The cross equalizing truck known to the catalog asNo. I. E. Truck is built for either double or single re-duction motors and adapatable for any make. Its weightis 3600 pounds with a wheel base of 6 feet. The wheelsare 33 inches diameter. The side equalizer catalogedas No. 2. E Truck is essentially of the same dimensionsbut different in design. The Three Rivers equalizing electric motor trucks,claim five points of advantage, namely; less wear on thetrack as the blow on the rail is to a degree modified;longer life of car body, as all twisting strains are obvi-ated; great ease and comfort to the passengers; lessexpense in motor repairs; freedom from oscillation.
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SHEFFIELD CAR COMPANYS WORLDS FAIR EXHIBIT. magnificent exhibit a part of which is shown in ourengraving. The space occupied is N., n., and O., s.,posts 13 and 14, Transportation Annex and the displayis a complete catalog of the devices and cars made bybhe Sheffield Company. Here are shown a cross equalizing street car truck,railway and tunnel velocipedes, number i and 2 handcars, a light inspection car, a track laying car, a sidedump car, a center -dump car, two plantation cars such asare use extensively on the sugar plantations of Louis-iana, flat cars, and a sail car, a new scheme for harness-ing the wind for the benefit of the inspection gang andan odometer car for measuring track milea-ge. The lat-ter is of the greatest importance to railway superin-tendents and is the invention of a practical man. In factmost of the cars shown are designed by men who havehad the greatest experience with cars for the various usesintended. In the No. 2. Truck the strain is equalized by a sideequal

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