The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-05
AN INGENIOUS DEVICE
An Anaconda Man Invents q
Rail-Sanding Machine.
1T SEEMS TO BE PERFECT
Was Tried Yesterday for the First Time
and the Test Was a Satisfactory
One Short Description of
the Apparatus.

Street car companies OF nearly every
city in the United States have expert
enced great deal of difficulty during
the winter months through the cars
slipping on the Icy rails. The only way
that this can be overcome is by lib
eral use of sand distributed on the rails
just in front of the motor wheels which
drive the car. In order that this meth
cd can be made effective, il is essential
that the sand be distributed equally
continuously and in a small stream,
and for this purpose SAND boxes and
apparatus in great number have been
| invented and placed on the market.
| but all of them were defective III some
/ respects until an Anaconda man per-
| fected an arrangement that seems to
meet every requirement in this line.
Fred Read Is the inventors name,
| and he has worked on his invention
for years, but until yesterday he had
| not succeeded in producing model
| that was satisfactory to himself. The
apparatus combines efficiency with sim
/ plicity, and there seems no reason TO
doubt that the little piece or machin-
cry will not do what is required of IT,
| 1t was tried yesterday for the first
| time on one of the big motor cars of
| the Anaconda Street Car company. and
| SO far as tested it worked to perfec-
/ ton.
The motor car is equipped with two
| trucks of four Wheels each. Two
| Wneeis on eltner emu are ca,leu motor
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propel the car. The invention of Read
is fitted to these cars so that sand may
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