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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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nd four trail-ers, each trolley car having a capacity of forty passengers,twenty-four seated and sixteen on the platforms. The electric equipment consists of two motors to eachcar, with the usual series-parallel controllers. The brakesare three in number, one a shoe brake, one a rail brake,and the third an electric brake, the multiplicity ofbrakes being adopted on account of the severe grades overwhich the cars have to run. The trailers are open carswith less seating capacity than the trolley cars. Each isprovided with a powerful shoe brake. The cars are hand- December, 1896.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 747 some in appearance, and solid in make, built by Machi headway of twenty-five minutes and cover the distance Brothers, of Varese, the trucks by Miani & vSilvestri from the vStazione Nord to the Prima Cappella in thirty of Milan. minutes. The line is divided into three sections, and The line was opened for public traffic on Sept. 7, the fare for each is twenty centesimi (four cents)
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FIG. 4.—VIEWS ON THE LINE OF THE VARESE ELECTRIC RAILWAY. 1895, twelve days before that of Rome, amid general re-joicing, which was warranted, in view of the difficultiesthrough which the project had passed. The speed of the cars is four miles an hour in the cityand outside as high as fourteen miles. They run under a going up and ten centesimi (two cents) descending.The first section terminates at the Rotonda, the sec-ond at Robarello, and the third at the Prima Cappella.Thus the ascending fare is twelve cents, the descendingsix cents. 748 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol.. XII. No. 12. The Englewood=Chicago Electric Railway. Ever since the consolidation of the storage battery in-terests on this side of the Atlantic about a year ago, therepresentatives of those interests have been anxious tohave an extended test made of their batteries for tractionwork. All previous .storage battery installations for streetrailway service in this country have been made, the manu-facturers of batteries c

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