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Identifier: streetrailwayjo101894newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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andin the spring of the following year the Sprague Electric Railway &Motor Company took a contract for equipping the Passenger Railway,of St. Joseph, Mo., and the Union Passenger Railway, of Richmond,Va. The latter was for eighty motors, eleven miles of track, and 375H. P. generating plant, and the road was to be completed in ninetydays, at a cost of $110,000. These roads were started experimentallyin the tall of 1887, but the Richmond road not regularly until thebeginning of February, 1888. The electric railway at Richmond wasby far the largest which had up to that time been equipped, and as theresults attained were largely instrumental in giving electric railwayconstruction the impetus which it has since had, and in convincingstreet railway managers of the successful commercial results obtainablewith electric power, it seems fair to say that to Mr. Sprague, morethan to any other one man, is due the credit of inaugurating the enor- 112 THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. X. No. 2.
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E. M. Bentley.W. H. Knight.J. C. Henry, F. J. Sprague.T. A. Edison.C. J. Van Depoele. Leo Daft.S. D. Field.S. H. Short. February, 1894) raous development of the electric railway industry in this countrywhich has excited the amazement and admiration of foreign engineersand workers in the tramway field. The characteristics of the Sprague motor equipment, as used inelevated railway experiments in New York, and in the railwayat Richmond, and which, it is claimed, were new in electric rail-way practice up to that time were : An independent truck withmotors exteriorly centered upon the driven axles so as to main-tain parallelism between the driving shaft and the driven axles;flexible support of part of the weight of the motors on the truck toallow perfect freedom in following the motions of the axles, suspensionbeing below the car springs; the method of flexible suspension, avoid-ing all shock and jar and danger of stripping gearing, and the mainte-nance at all times of a spring touch to pr

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  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
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  • bookleafnumber:129
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