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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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n. yellow pirie, and belt rails, door framing and side braces of2^4-in. x 4-in. yellow pine. The end roof carline is of 2^-in. x3-in. white pine curved, and the other roof carlines are 1^4-in. xglA-m. yellow pine. The outside roofing and sheathing is of %-in.North Carolina pine, and the inside roofing and sheathing is of%-in. North Carolina pine, except for about 4 ft. at each end, wherethe roof carlines were made circular on the under side, as well as the top, so as to allow the platform to be placed as high as possi-ble, and the sheathing was reduced to in. The locomotive is mounted on Peckham No. 14 B-3 doubletrucks, fitted with 33-in. wheels on 4j^-in. axles. The electricalequipment consists of four G. E. 57 railway motors, whose arma-tures are wound for slow speed, each coil containing six turns.Series parallel controllers allow the operation of the locomotiveat a speed of 5 to 6 miles per hour on the series slow runningpoint, and 9 to 12 miles per hour on the multiple point. The
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GENERAL VIEW OF LOCOMOTIVE six-panel resistances are under the cab platforms, with the idea ofutilizing their heat in the winter time to warm the cab. The automatic air-brake apparatus with which the locomotiveis equipped was supplied by the Christensen Engineering Com-pany, and will operate in connection with any of the standardautomatic brakes. The locomotive is accordingly supplied withcoupling hose in order that the air brakes may be used on anyfreight car which it has to handle. The motor compressor is situated underneath the engineersplatform at one end of the car, and has a capacity of compressing20 cu. ft. of free air per minute to 100 lbs. pressure. The mainstorage reservoir is placed beneath the car, as are the brake cyl-inder and the auxiliary reservoir, and is connected by piping to thecompressor and to the engineers valves at the ends of the loco-motive. The auxiliary reservoir is piped to the triple valve on thetail of the brake cylinder, which is in turn connected to th

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