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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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frog bearing, without which there can be no good horse-shoeing. FROG PRESSURE is as important a factor to the health of the horses foot as air is to the lungs or food to the stomach. It is the KEY-STONE OF THE ARCH. The advantages of the Goodenough System are, first and foremost, SOUNDHORSES; Secondly, CHEAP HORSE-SHOEING. Horse railroads using the system in its entirety not only buy much less iron and pay for much less labor, buthave also much more serviceable stock. Said a horse railroad superintendent of now the largest road in the United States: We dont wear iron nowadays, we wear frogs and cobble stones; nature provides frogs and • Boston finds cobblestones. To those who desire to read further upon the subject we will send upon application free of cost our pamphletsentitled, HORSE-SHOEING, and FACTS FOR HORSE-OWNERS. THE COODENOUCH COMPANY, 156 and 158 East Twenty-Fifth Street, Ootobee, 1885.) THE STEEET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 303 LAKE & McDEYITTS For Horse Railways, Omnibus Lines, Etc.
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The Advantages -n use on the Chicago West. Div. Ry.;Pittsburg and Birmingham, Pittsburg, Pa.,Superior Street Ry, Cleveland, O.; Cincinnati City RyCo ROPE TRACE are its ready applicationto Horse-Car service, or toany other purpose wherecheap harness is required.It only costs about half asmuch as leather traces,while at the same timeone set of R>pe Tugs will(when used on horse ears)take the place of three ormore sets of leathertraces, as the Tugs remainattached to the car allday, no matter how manychanges of stock aremade. The relief horseshaving hooks attached t >their names, all that isnecessary is to unhook thetugs from the workingteam back in the freshhorses, hook on the tugs,and the change is made.Railroad men will at onceperceive their adaptability and economy from theabove facts. They willalso last longer than leath-er traces, and r quire butvery little care. Fromtheir durability and cheap-ness they are also espec-ially adapted for all kindsof farm use and heavyteaming, as

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