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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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of panics have to reckon. In France the government changesover the telephone .service to the metallic return, butcharges about half the expense of so doing to the railwaycompany. Preliminary payment is exacted, and no workon the road is done until the matter is thus settled. The rolling stock of the Rouen company consists ofsixty cars. Each is divided by a .sliding door into twoclasses. The total number of places is forty to each car,twentj-four inside and sixteen on the platforms. It maybe noted here that although the double deck prevails inthe hor.se car and omnibus almost universally in France,the impcrialc is conspicuous by its ab.sence. The weightof each car loaded is seven tons, and each is twenty-sixfeet long. The trucks were turned out by the Thomson-Houston Company in the works of the Societe Postel-Vinay. The platforms are enclosed by handsome wroughtiron gates. F^ach car is equipped with two G. E. 800 motors and 2K controllers, magnetic blowouts and the usual acces.so-ries.
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Studies in Economic Practice. By C. B. Fairchild. Sliop Mctliods, Tools atid Labor Saving Devices of theChicago City Railway Company. Part II. Among the interesting features or labor saving devicesin the electrical department is a rope model for making thecables for car wiring. This model is constructed of twelvequarter inch ropes which are separated from each other bybeing run through holes in blocks of wood. The ends areconnected to a board 6 ins. X 12 ins., as shown in Figs. 20and 21. Each rope is properly lettered and numbered, .sothe model indicates how each wire is to be attached to thecontroller, and it also .shows to which wire the leads are tobe attached. By the use of this method inexperiencedmen or cheap labor can be employed for making cables.^f^^ The model is hung at the side of the room,and there are sevenhorses or jacks in lineon the floor. The fir.stof these, the one nextthe coil of wire, hascleats across the top orspaces one-half inchapart for twenty-fourwires, two ca

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