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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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ch included two trained donkeys,two deer, a kangaroo, two coyotes and a large black bear. Theload was shipped from Cleveland to Lorain, and it was neces-sary to store the animals in the express station over night.The bear got loose and made things lively for the station agentwhen be entered the building next morning. As a result, thecompany will decline to handle bears in the future. 846 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIV. No. 19. THE WESTINGHOUSE SINGLE-PHASE, A, C. RAILWAYSYSTEM FOR INTERURBAN SERVICE The rapidity with which old standards are replaced by new,and the slight extent to which electrical practice is hamperedby tradition or adherence to established methods, find ex-ample in the complete change in sentiment regarding the possi-bilities of the single-phase series motor for traction purposesthat has taken place since B. G. Lamme, chief engineer of theWestinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company, first madepublic the results of his researches along this line. Three years
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fig. 1.- -CAR ON THE INTER-WORKS RAILWAY EQUIPPED WITH A. C. APPARATUSTROLLEY AND LINE CONSTRUCTION FOR 1000 VOLTS AND LESS ago, European engineers were devoting their efforts to over-coming the inherent defects of the polyphase motor for railwayservice, and had, evidently, finally decided to use polyphasesystems. American engineers were decidedly skeptical as tothe ability of any one to produce an alternating-current rail-way system that could be operated economically or satisfac-torily, or alternating-current motors with the proper character-istics for railway service. This was shown by the many doubtsexpressed at the meeting of the American Institute of Elec-trical Engineers, Sept. 26, 1902, where Mr. Lamme presentedhis first paper. To-day the general verdict is that the alter- nearly two years a car equipped with these motors has been inalmost daily use upon the Inter-Works- Railway between EastPittsburg and Wilmerding, and system of regulation and con-trol suited to various opera

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