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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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ceilings of birds-eye maple veneer. The sides of the raised portion of the roofprovided with swinging ventilator frames, glazed with orna-mental glass and operated by a lever placed at either end of thecar. Each window is provided with two sashes, one movable andone fixed, glazed with polished plate-glass. The movable sashis provided with finger lifts, trigger catches and springs.Spring roller blinds of Pegamoid are fitted to the side windows. All the cars are mounted on Baldwin trucks. Li the case ofthe motor cars each truck is fitted with two Westinghouse No.83 railway motors. This motor has an approximate capacityof 100 hp at 550-600 volts. The motors are coupled to the caraxles through the usual single reduction spur-gearing of theratio 56.20. The collector shoes are of soft iron, hung by a loose systemof simple links, good contact being effected by gravity. Theshoes are suspended from stout wooden beams at each end oftlie motor cars, there being three shoes on each l.cam, one at
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Feet Inches Length of motor cars over sills ■ • 59 0 Length of composite and trailer cars over sills . . .S8 6 Width over side sheathing 8 7 Height from floor to top of roof 9 0 Height from rail level to top of floor ^ 10 Gage of line 4 ELECTRIC TR.\1,\ ICXTERINC, TUNNEL each end, to collect current from tlie positive conductor rail,and one in the middle which runs on the negative or returnconductor rail. The controllers are of the Westinghouse No. 134 type withmagnetic blow-outs, and arranged for the series-parallel controlof four motors each. These controllers are in all cases actuatedby the electro-pneumatic mutiple-control system. As usual, thesystem is inter-connected with the Westinghouse air brakegear, so that it is impossible for the brake to be applied whilethe motors are receiving current, or conversely for cur- t April 4, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 525 rent to be supplied to the motors while the brakes are applied. AN INTERURBAN RAILWAY NEAR HAMBURG, GERMANY The mot

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