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Identifier: electricrailway511918newy (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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ard. This planning need not involve any consider-able expense; in fact, it may need go no further thantentative plans laid out in the minds of the responsibleofficials. The average man reacts quickly and effectivelyin an emergency only if he has carefully rehearsed inhis imagination the emergency and his plan of actionrelative to it. He then tends to do the right thingautomatically. Even the layman understands thattrainmen, central station attendants and others who areoften required to face emergencies must receive specialdrill and training to fit them for the work. During the war our transportation systems will becompelled to face many new operating conditions andemergencies. While no doubt the higher officials ofevery railway in the country are striving to foreseefuture contingencies, we wonder if the rank and fileof those holding the minor positions of authority aregiving the matter the attention it should receive. Theyshould begin to think about it if they have not alreadydone so.
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New Montreal Cars Designed for Multiple-Unit Operation March 2, 1918 Electric Railway Journal 403 Six-Motor Multiple-Unit Trains for Montreal Two-Car Semi-Trail Operation on Grades Up to 13.per Cent—Multiple-Unit Control with Hand andAutomatic Acceleration—Semi-Automatic BrakeSystem — Emergency Opening Coupler — Air-Operated Doors with Safety Interlocking Control By KEITH MacLEOD Engineer of Equipment Montreal (Que.) Tramways THE operation of trailers on the fairly level eastand west lines of the Montreal Tramways hasproved so satisfactory that it has been decided toplace fifty new two-car trains on the north and southlines. As these lines are quite hilly, the maximum gradebeing 13 per cent, it was necessary to increase themotive power, and a two-car multiple-unit train wasdecided on as the most efficient and flexible arrange-ment. It is in the control mainly that these cars differ fromthe former cars* of the company. In general the newarrangement is a multiple-unit system wit

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  • bookleafnumber:427
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