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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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panels.It is equipped with Weston voltmeters and ammeters andrecording voltmeters, as well as the other usual appli-ances. The rolling stock of the company consists of twenty-fivecars, of which twenty-one are single-deck and four double-deck; twenty-three of the cars are mounted on doubletrucks and two on single trucks. The cars in use were power. The construction was recently commenced, andthe total electric system will be completed about April 1,1899. The line from Gratz to Maria Trost is single track,and has a length of 5.2 km., a gage of 1.0 m., and a maxi-mum grade of 3.9 per cent. There are many curves havingas low a radius as 50 m. In the city a grooved rail is used;outside the Vignole T-rail is employed. The overhead system and ordinary rail return has beenadopted. The overhead wire is supported in the city onMannesmann poles with ornamental brackets, and in thesuburban line wooden poles with iron brackets are em-ployed. The power station for this electric system is located in
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CENTER POLE CONSTRUCTION ON SPRINGBURN ROAD, GLASGOW designed and built by the Glasgow Corporation, havea steel frame with side and corner pillars of ash andhave a steel frame with side and corner pillars of ash andinside finish of mahogany, and the double-truck cars meas-ure 33 ft. 6 ins. over all. Chilled iron wheels 30 ins. in di-ameter are employed, and each car is equipped with onehand and electric brake, the Van Dorn coupler, Ham sandbox, and fender of the cradle type. The entrance to thecar is on the side. Each car is equipped with two Westinghouse No. 39motors with Westinghouse controllers, switches, circuitbreakers, lightning arresters, etc. The cars are run on anaverage headway during the day of z\ minutes, and havean average speed of 7 miles per hour. A graded sys-tem of fares is charged; one-half penny will carry a pas-senger an average of .6 miles, one penny 1.81 miles, andi\ pence the entire length of the road, or 2\ miles. The officials of the company are: Chairman, ex-

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