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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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revolution of the controller handle inacceleration. The four motors used are Edison No. 16,30 hp. The controllers were designed by Charles Grover,the companys electrician, and were built in the shops. Themotors are thrown four in series at first, then two in series,two in parallel and finally four in parallel. Four in parallelthey run about 17 miles per hour. There are five seriespoints, four series multiple points, and three multiplepoints. The controller is 44^ ins. high, 22% ins. wideat the back, and 11^ ins. deep. The cut-out switchesthrow the motors in multiple when one motor is cutout, and the controller is then only operated on five pointswhen one motor is out. One of the strong points aboutthe controller is the efficient magnetic blow-out. This isso strong in its action that it is not necessary to throw thecontroller entirely off before going from a higher point toa lower one, as there is little danger of starting an arcwhen passing from parallel to series. The blow-outs con-
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October 13, 1900.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 919 sist of small, flat coils, located in the vulcanized fibreguards between the rings. Thest coils are made of a fewturns of flat copper strip, wound in a l-in iron core. Theaxis of each coil is parallel to the controller shaft. Thiscontroller by its series combinations permits the haulingof heavy loads slowly with very little current, and at thesame time good speeds can be made if desired. The loco-motive, which is shown in the accompanying engraving, ishitched to standard steam cars, and hauls them whereverthey may be needed for fuel or ballast on the Independenceline. It is not uncommon for it to haul three loaded coalcars. It weighs 20 tons, is 34 ft. long over platforms, has40-in. platforms, and the wheel base of each truck is 7 ft.4 ins. It is used as a tower car, and inside the car is a factorily on the Cherokee slack, which is the fuel used inthat part of the country, this fuel being mined a short dis-tance south of Kansas City in Ka

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