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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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l beadopted in case it should prove a success, the constructionof the cable railway on that avenue will be suspended forthe present. It is stated that both the Siemens & HalskeCompany and the General Electric Company own funda-mental patents covering the feasible construction of a entthe road will be operated by fifty-five three-car trains,each motor car being supplied with two 100 h. p. motors.The third rail, and in general many other details used onthe Intramural road at the Worlds Fair last summer, willbe adopted. The line is about five miles long and runsdue West between Van Buren and Congress Streets witha northern branch at Paulina Street. 460 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. X. No. 7. Electric Welding in Brooklyn. Work on the track construction of the Nassau Elec-tric Railway of Brooklyn is going on rapidly on 39thStreet, South Brooklyn. From the plans of this company,which have already been published in the Street Rail-way Journal, it will be remembered that from fifty to
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FIG. 1.—RAIL WELDING EQUIPMENT—NASSAU ELECTRIC RAILWAY, BROOKLYN. sixty miles of track will be laid this summer, and that thecompany contemplates the ultimate installation of anexceedingly important system in Brooklyn. A. L. John-son, of Cleveland, O., is largely interested in the road,and is president of the Nassau Electric Railway Company, rent taken from the overhead wire, which at present isreceiving its current from the power station of the Atlan-tic Avenue Railroad Company. Leads from this motor-dynamo carry the alternating current, which is at 300volts, to the forward car. This contains the welder, con-sisting of an enormous clamp made of gun metal, so as tobe non-magnetic, supported on a frame operated by anhydraulic jack. The 300 volt cur-rent is transformed at the point ofuse to an alternating current ofabout four volts and 50,000 am-peres, the amount of current beingvaried by a reactive coil carried onthe forward car. When the rails are laid theends of two joints out of

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