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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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nnected by bevelgears and shafts to an ordinary brake handle or wheel on the frontplatform. When a motorman finds he has lost control of his car, and allother brakes fail to stop it, he gives the emergency brake handle orwheel a few rapid turns, thus screwing the heavy steel fork withpointed ends down into the pavement, one of the prongs being oneither side of the rail. The result varies with different kinds ofpaving. In macadam or asphalt it simply plows two small grovesand stops the car with little more jarring than the ordinary brake.In brick pavement the action is nearly the same. In cobble stone orBelgian block pavement it will shake up the passengers consider-ably, and may turn up paving stones for a short distance, but in The General Electric Company made, as befitted its eminencein the electrical railway field, what was, from the electrical stand-point, perhaps the most comprehensive exhibit of apparatus in theauditorium. It included almost ever)* device used on electric rail-
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OF PECKHAM MOTOR TRUCK AND WHEEL CO. AND MGUIRE MANUFACTURING CO. roads with the exception of the generators. The most prominentfeature of the exposition was one of the motortrucks which is to beoperated on the Brooklyn Bridge structure at New York. This truckis of McGuire manufacture, and carries two G. E. 50 motors, a.special motor designed to meet the peculiar conditions of the bridgeservice. One of the controllers used to operate this bridge carequipment, was also shown. To the right of this compact equipment, was a Peckham truckwith complete electrical equipment of two G. E. 1000 motors, andelectric brakes, controlled by a B. 3 series parallel controller. Thiswas shown in operation and was the center of attraction for greatnumbers of electric railway men interested in the operation of theelectric brake and the G. E. 1000. Many favorable comments weremade on the positive action of this brake, and the startling sudden-ness with which the motion of the wheels was brought to a stop.D

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