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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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ese cars is the use madefor an observatory and smoking room of the vestibuledcompartment at each end. The equipment for the doubletruck cars consisted originally of two 50-h.p. motors, butin practice these have not been found entirely satisfactory.The present standard equipment, both for the open andclosed cars consists of four G. E. 1000 motors, geared torun at 25 to 30 miles per hour. This has been found byexperience to be an admirable equipment for work of thisclass. The trucks used are of the Blackwell, Taylor andBrill make. ficient aid in figihting snow, and one which has provedmost effective during the past winter, even with stormsthat have stalled the steam roads for several days is thesnow plow on each car, designed by Mr. Brown, andshown clearly in the engravings. Of the two locomotives, both of which are in everydayuse on the road, the first, which has been in operationsince its starting up, two years ago, consists of a 22 ft.8 ins. body mounted on heavy Blackwell trucks and
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INTERIOR OF CAR equipped with four G. E. 1200 motors, geared to run at20 miles per ihour. The operation of this locomotive hasbeen exceedingly satisfactory, its usual load being five orsix loaded freight cars. Locomotive No. 2, which wasplaced in operation last summer, is a much more pow-erful machine, the body being 26 ft.. in length and theequipment consisting of four G. E. 51 motors, capable of

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