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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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e railway system on the Bergama, Valle Brembana Rail-way, Italy. This is the second single-phase railway contractsecured by this company in that country, the first being theRome-Civita-Castellana Railway. The length of the line is 30kilometers, and it will be served by five 30-ton locomotives,equipped with four 75-hp single-phase motors, with multipleunit control, and pneumatically-operated bow trolleys. Thegage of the track will be 1.44 m. The power station is to be situated about 1 km. out of ValleBrembana, and will be equipped with three single-phase, 500-kw alternators, running at a speed of 500 r.p.m. There are tobe no transforming substations, and the line will be fed at theabove pressure direct from the power house. NEW YORK STATE CONVENTION As a result of the active efforts of the president and executivecommittee, the twenty-third annual convention of the StreetRailway Association of the State of New York, held at FortWilliam Henry Hotel, Lake George, N. Y., on June 27 and 28,
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A NEW MOVABLE HEADLIGHT O. E. Mitchell, a Los Angeles Railway Company conductor,has invented a movable headlight which he hopes will be putinto use on all of the cars of the various Huntington systems ofthe city. The light used is the same as those with which thecars are now equipped. By Mitchells apparatus they are at-tached to the front cars that, by pressing a lever with his foot,the motorman can throw a shaft of light in any direction hechooses. One is now being used experimentally on a Glen-dale car. It is being tried upon this line because the route isexceptionally dark at night and has many curves. INTERIOR OF NEW CLEVELAND CAR, SHOWING LONGITUDINAL AND CROSS SEATS was in many respects the most successful in the history of theassociation. All the sessions were well attended, and the pa-pers presented brought out much interesting and valuable dis-cussion. The entertainment features were well planned andwere thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated by all of the visitors.While the Fort

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