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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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of each contact-shoe, so that the third rail may always be kept clear of sleet,snow and ice, and perfect contact be thus ensured. It willnecessitate the use of four scrapers on each truck of a motorcar, or eight altogether for each motor car, as there will beas many scrapers as there are contact shoes. The mechanical department of the Interborough Company israpidly equipping all motor cars for operation on the elevatedsystem with these scrapers, and it is confidently expected thatthe discomforts and delays experienced last winter will lieaverted, 948 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXII. No. 22. ELECTRICITY FOR THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD The first large contracts for electrical apparatus to be usedin the conversion of the New York Central Railroads New erators are 25-cycle, three-phase, and will generate currentat 11,000 volts. This order is said to be the largest order forsteam turbines ever placed in this country or abroad. The electric locomotives to be used will differ in general
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York tunnel from steam to electricity were given out latelast week. As already announced in this paper, the NewYork Central & Hudson River Railroad Company isplanning to haul all of its suburban and through trains byelectricity, not only through the Park Avenue tunnel inNew York City, but also exclusively for its suburbanservice in the neighborhood of New York. This meansthat within five years no passenger trains on the NewYork Central or Harlem lines will be hauled by steamwithin a radius of about 50 miles of the Grand CentralStation. The change from steam to electricity on theHudson River division will be made at Croton, while thaton the Harlem division will be made at White Plains. Forjust what distance the New Haven trains will employelectric power has not yet been determined, and no de-tails have yet been made public as to the distribution sys-tem, although it is understood that a protected thirdrail will be used, with, probably, some form of over-head structure in the switch

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