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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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n of the McGuire Colum-bian trucks, and one of the Barney & Smith. Doublemotor equipments are employed, and these embraceseventy-four of the G. E. 800, thirty-three F 40 Thom-son Houston type (double reduction); fifty equipmentsof the W. P. 50 type; twenty-five equipments of theS. R. G. motors, and fourteen of the Westinghouse.The G. E. 800 are among the latest types purchased, andtwenty-five equipments have also been recently orderedfrom the Card Electric Motor & Dynamo Company, ofCincinnati, and twenty of the Sperry motors have beenordered. The motor equipment of the Mt. Adams &Eden Park system embraces W. P. 50s type, the G. E.800, and the G. E., F 30 of the Thomson-Houston style ofmotors. A 300 lb., thirty-three inch wheel is generallyemployed on electric cars, and the more recent purchaseshave been from the Mowry Car Wheel Works, of Cincin-nati. On the cable cars, the Wharton double tread wheelsare employed, which are designed to be operated with theelevated switches.
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FIG. 8.—EIGHTH STREET VIADUCT—CINCINNATI STREET RAILWAY. FARES. The fare is five cents, with a three cent fare for chil-dren under ten years of age, or two childrens fares forfive cents. On all of the horse car lines six tickets aresold for twenty-four cents, or twenty-five tickets for $1.A lump sum is received from the Post Office departmentfor the fare of mail carriers and messengers who ride ontheir uniform. The employes tickets are issued to theheads of the departments who issue to such employes asrequire them, the tickets being punched by the issuingofficer. Before the practice of issuing tickets to the headsof departments was adopted, a very large number of em-ployes tickets were required, but after the introduction ofthe above arrangement, their use fell off about half. July, 1894.) THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 4r 7

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