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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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earsare shown, half size, in Fig. 2. After this experience it was decided to use steelgears, and a contract was made January 28, 1895, for aset. The pinions have 42 teeth, 20 in. face and 6 in. pitch,with staggered teeth, making a total of 40 in. face. Thecast steel gears have 62 teeth, each 20 in. face and 6 in. Chicago City Railway Company considers these gearssafe for 5,000 h. p. On several occasions the maximumload of the engines has been put on these gears, which,under these conditions, ran perfectly noiseless. To realize the actual difference in size between thethree forms of teeth shown the reader should really com-pare full sized sections, which can be reproduced fromthe engravings by doubling each linear dimension. A system of telephone transmission between thecable cars on the New York & Brooklyn Bridge and acentral dispatching office has recently been decidedupon by the managers of that road. A trolley wire is rununder the cars, and connection is made by a novel type of
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FIG. 4.—TRANSMISSION GEARS. CHICAGO CITY RAILWAY STATION. brush. A transmitter and receiver will be carried on eachca.r, the former being hung on springs to prevent as faras possible vibration from the jolting of the train. T22 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. Xn. No. 2. Club House for Motormcn and Conductors. The Derby Street Railway, of Derby, Conn., has anew institution in the way of a club house for its em-ployes, which is a novelty both in design and results. Fora long time the president, H. H. Wood, has had in minda scheme for bringing the men into closer relationship tothe company, providing reading andrecreation rooms, a comfortable placein which they could wait when wait-ing was necessary and a clean and neatplace where lunches could be eaten.Usually the men took their lunch pailsto the car barn and there in a coldand cheerless corner did what eatingwas necessary. For a time a finished room wasgiven the men on the second floor ofthe car house next the offices. Themen did not l

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