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Identifier: streetrailwayjo231904newy (find matches)
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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disobedience of orderson the part of a motorman, the operator can throw, and therebystop a car by switching the rear truck over to the other trackafter the front truck has passed the switch point. Of course,this prerogative is only to be exercised in extreme emergencies,but it illustrates the control which the switchman has over thecars. With the aid of a megaphone, the operator can give FIG. 8.- -FORM USED BY MASTER CAR BUILDER TO KEEPRECORD OF ALL CARS the down-town district. For a single track switch Dr. Bell hasdevised an apparatus that can he operated by the motorman, 556 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol, XXIII. No. 15. and such a switch has been in successful operation for sometime at Fifth Street and Maple Avenue. The track part ofthe switch is identical with that used at the First and SpringStreet installation, being operated by oil. The switch is thrownby the car-controller closing a circuit through an insulated sec-tion of the trolley wire which is connected with the electrical
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FIG. 9.—EMERGENCY CAR operating device, located at the side of the street on a pole.No electrical wires or apparatus are necessary under this street,a feature which tends to insure the reliability of the switch.ROLLING STCKThe company has a total of 284 cars on its system, themajority of which are of the standard type illustrated in Fig.4. Some forty odd Pullman cars that were about to be dis-carded, have been rebuilt to conform with the adopted standard,and the remaining cars are of the open cross-bench type, andare used only as extras. A brief description follows of thestandard cars and of results accomplished in standardizingthe equipment and construction of the rolling stock in general.

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