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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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process, and were beddedin babbit metal, so arranged that they can be removed and new onessubstituted, without disturbing the street pavement. In addition tothis special work, rail sections were shown, one of which was ten and ahalf inches deep. Alongside of it, on the same board, were shown oldspecimens, which were formerly in general use, which were less thanhalf as high as the modern types. Besides the rail exhibit, the com-pany showed the Dupont truck. The special feature of this truck isthe ease with which the wheels can be removed. The truck frame ismade of solid steel bars, and, although of very massive construction,does not weigh more than other trucks of the same strength and dur-ability. The company was represented by Daniel Coolidge andE. B. Entwisle, from Johnstown; VV. W. Kingston and Eugene Thomas,of the Atlanta office ; Maj. H. C. Evans, of New York ; A. S.Littlefield, of Chicago; E. O. Evans, of Boston; O. C. Evans, of Cin-cinnati, and W. E. Boughten, of Philadelphia.
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EXHIBITION BOARD OF THE H. W. JOHNS MANUFACTURING CO. Jas. F. McLaughlin, of Philadelphia, captured every ones atten-tion with hisexhibit at the Kimball House, where he had on exhibitiona large model of his newly devised method of distribution of the currentfor propelling street cars electrically by means of a buried conductor.The method of distribution consists of a main tube of cast iron of thesame height as the rail, made in sections of fourteen feet each, whichare bolted on the ties midway between the track rails. In the centerof this tube is placed the main line conductor which is an iron rod, thecross section of which is dependent upon the amount of power used.This rod is continuous, and carries the current, it is insulated from theiron tube by a bituminous cement. The current is distributed to thecar motor by means of the surface sectional conductors, in conjunctionwith a flexible controlling device mounted between the two car motors.The controller carries two collectors in the

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