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Identifier: streetrailwayjo241904newy (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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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the plans of the commission fur mak 876 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIV. No. 20. ing high-speed tests near Anderson, Ind., were published. Thesetests will be conducted with both a typical interurban car anda special car to measure the air resistance. The latter wasillustrated in the issue referred to. The former is one of anorder of twenty cars recently built by the Cincinnati Car Com-pany for the heavy interurban service of the Union TractionCompany, and is shown in Fig. 4. This car has been a centerof interest during the summer as a working exhibit at theLouisiana Purchase Exposition upon the test tracks north ofthe Palace of Transportation, and it was described in the issueof this paper for Sept. 24, 1904. It is furnished with the electro-pneumatic control system of the Westinghouse Electric & Man-ufacturing Company, insuring perfect control of acceleration.This car was placed at the disposal of the commission by theCincinnati Car Company early in the season, but the limited
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FIG. 4.—THE INTERURBAN CAR CHOSEN FOR MAKING HIGH-SPEED TESTS track facilities at St. Louis made it necessary to postpone testsupon it until it could be spared from the Exposition. The interurban tests will probably be conducted upon astretch of tangent track of the Indiana Union Traction Com-pany between Noblesville and Carmel, about 10 miles north ofIndianapolis, Ind. In this piece of track there is a ^-milelength which is absolutely level, while the maximum grade isbut a fraction of 1 per cent. THE OPERATION OF A FOUR-MOTOR EQUIPMENT WITH ATWO-MOTOR CONTROLLER BY EDWARD TAYLOR A great many attempts have been made to operate cars withfour-motor equipments by means of a two-motor controller.In some instances, it has been found to be a satisfactory ar-rangement for a short time following the installation, and thishas led the engineers in charge of the work to the belief thatgood results could be obtained with this system of connections.In other cases, however, trouble was experience

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo241904newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:917
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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