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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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o arranged that the governor may control the cut-off in both cylinders, or the low-pressure cylinder rnay be run December, 1899.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 895 on the fixed cut-off. The change can be made while the engine isin motion. The engine is guaranteed to regulate as to speedwithin 1 per cent under practically constant load, and to vary notmore than 3 per cent with sudden changes of 25 per cent in load. New Long Car for Cleveland A type of car which is proving very satisfactory for long dis-tance riding on the Cleveland City Railway is illustrated in this Youngstown Frontier freight car, published elsewhere in this issue,the plank upon which it is mounted to the platform timbers. Aview of the device is shown in the engraving of the Lewiston & »♦♦ Device for Testing Rail Bond Resistances The accompanying sketch shows an instrument for determiningthe resistances of rail-joints, invented by Chas. J. Schnaus, of theMissouri Railroad Company, of St. Louis, Mo. As shown, it is
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LONG DOUBLE-TRUCK CAR FOR CLEVELAND connection. It is used on the St. Clair, Detroit & Rocky RiverLine, which is controlled by the Cleveland City Railway Com-pany. The car, which was built by the G. C. Kuhlman Company, hasa length over all of 47 ft., and contains fifteen benches, eachcapable of seating six passengers, or a total of ninety passengersin all. The width over the posts is 8 ft. 4 ins., and that over thesteel sill plates 7 ft. 9 ins. The car is finished in white oak, with cherry trimmings, andbirds-eye maple ceilings. The metal trimmings are of polishedbronze. The car is vestibuled in front, and is equipped with four35-h.p. Westinghouse motors on Brill No. 27 trucks. This car has been adopted as the standard for this class ofservice on the Cleveland City Railway, and the Kuhlman Com-pany is now engaged in building twenty similar in general charac-ter to that illustrated. Track Scrapers There is one piece of apparatus of the greatest value to streetrailway companies whic

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