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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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s fur this class of service. Each carw ill have four 125-hp General Electric motors. The carsand trucks will follow M. C. B. standards quite closely.The General Electric multiple-unit or train-control sys-tem is to be put on all the cars. It is the intention to runcars either singly or in trains. In case trains are made upconsisting of as many as three cars, one of these cars willhave no motors, otherwise every axle on the train willhave a motor. The track construction which is now going on is of themost thorough character and leaves little doubt as to (hepracticability of attaining the high maximum speed con- 144 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIX. No. 5. templated. The culverts and bridges are of a solidity is to be double-tracked. From Wheaton to Elgin and towhich savors strongly of English steam railroad construe- Aurora single-track lines are being built. However, ontion, as can be seen from the views of construction work the single track the sidings are of considerable length, to
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accompanying this article. Wherever possible the high- avoid loss of time at the passing points. For example, be-way has been carried over or under the road, and in doing tween Wheaton and Aurora there are about 2 miles of sid-this no makeshift construction has been employed, as the ing. The line is ballasted and graded throughout after theengravings testify. From Chicago to Wheaton the line best steam road construction, In some places very deep February t, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 145 cuts and high fills have been necessary. The track rails located in the standard position outside of the track rails,are 80 lbs. to the yard in 60-ft. lengths. as adopted by the elevated roads of Chicago and other

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