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Identifier: electricrailway481916newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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nd tail lights, was also installed. A pilot lampin the car advises the conductor of the condition ofthese lamps. Other specialties in these cars include a Westing-house straight and automatic air-brake system withD2-E 25-ft. air compressors, Brill 27-MCB-2 trucks,Tomlinson automatic couplers, Hale & Kilburn seats,Acme Supply Companys curtain fixtures, Edwardsautomatic closing trapdoors equipped with a self-fold-ing device, Peter Smith OC-2 hot-water heaters of thedouble-circulating system type, the Cleveland TrolleySupply Companys ticket holders, Electric Service Sup-ply Companys signal gongs, Nichols-Lintern air sandboxes, sand valves and sand traps, Crouse-Hinds arcand incandescent head lamps, Knutson trolley re-trievers, Peacock hand brakes, a 15-ton Barrett jack inthe emergency tool box and a Pyrene fire extinguisher. As shown in one of the accompanying illustrations,the bus line receptacles providing for train operationare all installed on a wooden block mounted on the vesti-
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NORTHERN OHIO TRACTIONS STEEL CAR INTERIOR VIEW OF CAR bule dash. The back of this block is cut to fit the dash,and it is fastened to it with a rubber gasket for weath-erproofing purposes. This block serves as an insulator,and the dash is cut away from behind the block topermit the bus lines to connect with the receptacles.A plug for the headlight was also provided in thisblock so as to shorten the leads. These cars were de-signed and built under the supervision of J. G. Swain,general superintendent of power and shops, and P. J.Wood, superintendent of shops, under the direction ofCharles Currie, the vice-president and general managerof the Northern Ohio Traction & Light Company. Thecars were built in the shops of the Jewett Car Company,Newark, Ohio. The Fort Smith (Ark.) Traction Company in its ap-plication before the State Tax Commission has secureda reduction in assessment from $1,016,260 in 1915 to$800,000 for 1916. This was the greatest reduction ofany public utility company i

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