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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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ning with the ordinary four-car train was continued for someweeks longer, and then as a further trial night work was re-sumed, with the object of testing the ultimate capacity, of themotor on the gradient between Forty-second and FiftiethStreets by adding cars to the limit. This was done until a train of eight cars was successfullyhauled over the section at a mean speed of io miles per hour,anil up the gradient of 1.86 per cent at 7 miles per hour. Returning to earlier street car work, in 1886 a car wasequipped for the first section of the Orange Cross Town line,which ran on that section for a short time, was equipped withthe motor underneath the car and with double-reduction cut-steel pinions and cut cast-iron gears, and was not only elec-trically lighted, but provided with electrical push buttons andbell for the convenience of passengers. Fig. 6 is from an oldengraving of this car, which is chiefly referred to as evidencethat the Daft Company never then or at any other time equipped
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FIG. 8.- resort.March, -MOTOR CAR ON ASBURY PARK ROAD-1887-F. H. REEDAS MOTORMAN The

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