Identifier: electricrailway431914newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal, May 9, 1914, Vol. XLIII, No. 19, p. 1046.
Year: 1914
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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Electric Wrecking Crane—View Showing Crane Lifting Bridge Girder with Outriggers Extended
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Electric Wrecking Crane—General View of Crane with One Boom Swung 90 Deg. Off Center 30 m.p.h. on level tangents while hauling a trailingload of 100 tons. While it is primarily designed to re-ceive its power from the third-rail, it is equipped withstorage batteries which allow it to run where there isno other power available. Of many advantages demon-strated by the outfit, the main one is the saving of timein getting to a wreck—an average of an hour. The There is a cab at each end, from which is controlled notonly the corresponding boom, but also the propellingmechanism of the car itself. Thus the wrecker can beoperated equally well in either direction from eitherend, and no time need be wasted in turning it. Noheavy levers are required as all motions are controlledby air. May 9, 1914.) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 1047 With all outriggers set each boom can handle 100tons at radii varying from 24 ft. 2 in. straight aheaddown to 13 ft. 8 in. at right angles. Lighter loadsmay be swung t

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