Show electric road aud snowfalls snowballs Snow falls when many of our electrio electric railway rail W aa inam managers agers were boys it was just about this time of year that they got down from the attic or up from the cellar 01 02 out from the woodshed their old double runners and polished and oiled them up in anticipation of many coasts down the tha icy hillside roads roada they are doing pretty much the same thing now except that the double runners havo bava developed into electric railway snow plows whose function is if to spoil coasting rather than to facilitate it these machines ma chinea are of very recent origin and are still in many any ways experimental devices plows and sweepers have both been used to displace the snow enow from electric I 1 railroad tracks it has been thought by some companies that the sweeper does its work too thoroughly as it cleans off all the snow leaving only the bare bara ground for the use lisa of other vehicles on runners this causes delays to tho the electric cars and interferes with their prompt operation crosby and bell state in their book on the electric railway that it is best to leave an inch or two of snow on tha track when cleared by plows unless the snow is very much com compacted packed or has become a sort of frozen slush slosh it is then possible to obtain fair contact between wheel and rail thus keeping up the car service the proper function of the snow plow is its constant use in keeping the snow on the tracks from packing and freezing its principal use nse is ia in the city streets where the road runs out ont into the country or where the snows snowa are light the ff sweeper weeper service will probably prove equally desirable on many roads a combined plow and sweeper fc ervice eill will bo found best of all electrical review |