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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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most any desired animals, or, as he expresses it, Any-thing from a white mouse to a white elephant. In his capacityas American agent for the zoological parks of Berlin, Ham-burg and Antwerp, Dr. French has acquired an intimate knowl-edge of the offerings in this market. Among the animals thathe is prepared to loan or sell are swans, geese, ducks, cranes,elk, beavers, deer, rabbits, seals and sea lions. May 20, 1905.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 923 I500-H. P. SINGLE-PHASE LOCOMOTIVE ELECTRIC MACHINE-TOOL DRIVING AT WASHINGTON During the visit of the delegates to the International RailwayCongress at the WestingJiouse works at Pittsburg, May 16, agreat deal of interest was attracted to the new 1500-hp Bald-win-Westinghouse single-phase alternating-current electric lo-comotive in use on the Westinghouse Interworks Railway.This locomotive has just been completed by the WestinghouseCompany and Baldwin Locomotive Works, and is in two parts,connected and controlled by the unit-switch system. The
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SINGLE-PHASE LOCOMOTIVE ON THE WESTINGHOUSE INTERWORKS RAILWAY weight of the locomotive complete (both halves) is 135 tons,and the total length over bumpers is 45 ft. The maximumheight with trolley down is 17 ft. The drivers are 60 ins. indiameter, and the distance between centers of drivers is 6 ft.4 ins. The extreme width of the locomotive is 9 ft. 8 ins. The locomotive is equipped with six single-phase, single-reduction motors, having a normal capacity of 225 hp each,with gear reduction of 18:95. Induction regulator control isused with a pneumatically-operated trolley. The air-brake-equipment is combined automatic and straight air, with pneu-matic Sanders to sand tracks in both directions. The locomotive is designed to operate on 6600 volts trolleyvoltage, with a voltage of 140 to 320 on the motors. The loco-motive has a draw-bar pull of 50,000 lbs., at a speed of ap-proximately 10 m.p.h. The maximum speed for which the loco-motive is designed is approximately 25 m.p.h. to 30 m.p.h

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