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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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to accumulatehere for several days if it is impo.sible to get rid of them. Theashes should be taken to an overhead bunker, preferably at theend of the boiler house furtho-st from that which the coal enters,and from this bunker they may be fed into carts or trucks bymeans of chutes. It is most essential that they should not beallowed to accumulate, and it is quite as important to provideduplicate means for getting rid of i^em as it is for getting the coalinto the station. GRAND RAPIDS, GRAND HAVEN & MUSKEGONINTERURBAN. SPECIAL CONSTRUCTION CAR. The Mahoning Valley Ry.. Youngstown. O., has just purchasedfrom the J. G. Brill Co., a construction car shown in the accom-panying engraving, which is so unusual in most of its features asto be of interest to railway men. It consists of a platform car36 ft. long by 8 ft. wide over the sills; the sills are heavily platedwith iron and are strengthened by truss rods. The trucks are theBrill No. 27 G with four Westinghouse 12 A motors. Each end
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WORK CAR AND LOCOMOTIVE, MAHONING VALLEY RY. of the car has a Brill angle iron buffer, and a pilot of a type verysimilar to that used on steam railroads. In the center of the carthere is a small cab having a door upon one side. This cab is 5ft. long by 4 ft. wide, and at the bottom is finished with a concaveiron panel, the object being to allow long rails to be loaded. Thecar is mounted as low as possible, has the usual trap doors in thefloor. Under the center of each sill and betwen the needle beamsare two storage boxes 48 in. long, 20 in. wide and 16 in. deep.From the top of the platform over the trolley board is 7 ft. 45^ in.The car is fitted for use not only as a construction car for railcarrying and the like, but has ample power so it may be used asa locomotive. The pilots are arranged so as to be easily removedfor repairs or other purposes. The whole machine is arranged sothat it will perform a great variety of services, and will undoubt-edly be exceedingly convenient. The IMeri

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