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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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FIG. 9.-VIEW UIDER METROPOLITAN ELEVATED CAR
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FIG. 10.—END VIEW OF NtW MOTOR CAR, SHOWING GUARDSNICHE AND DOOR motors to the reverser are seen at the left-hand top in Fig. 9.These wires also show another recently adopted practice ofthe company, namely, that of using motor leads covered withspiral brass wire for protection against abrasion. From thethird-rail shoes the main leads are carried under the truckframe in a wooden molding. The truck frame can be seen atthe top of Fig. 9, with the main wire leading out from underthe frame and entering the reverser. In Fig. 8 the air-brakestorage cylinders are in the right and left foreground, and thestorage battery tray in the middle. In a few places it is neces-sary to cleat wires against boards hung some distance belowthe car floor. These wood cleats, boards and molding arepainted with fireproof paint. The real fireproofing of the car consists, in the new cars, ofa continuous sheet of steel under the entire car floor, so that itis practically impossible for fire starting in the wiring

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