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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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Street liy- Journal COMBINATION CAR FOR INDIANAPOLIS & CINCINNATI TRAClION COMPANY The motor has been designed so that it will operate in anyposition, even with the shaft vertical, without any change beingmade in the machine. It is readily adaptable for use open, semi-enclosed or enclosed. The average speed variation is 5 percent from full load to no load, at any set speed of the con-troller. This is a particularly important point to be consideredwhen machine tools are equipped with motors for variable-speed duty. a bow, sliding contact trolley for use in the country. The con-tact surface of the bow is 3 ins. wide, so as to make contacton about 3 lineal ins. of trolley wire. The Schenectady Railway Company will hereafter instructall new motormen on a skeleton car which was at the St. LouisExposition as a part of the General Electric exhibit. January 28, 1905.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 173
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THE LATEST CONCRETE BEAM TRACK CONSTRUCTIONIN INDIANAPOLIS T h c accompany-ing drawing showsthe latest track con-struction on con-crete beams laid bythe IndianapolisTraction & Termi-nal Company. Thisconstruction was de-scribed in the paperof Thomas B. Mc-Math, civil engineerof that company,which was read be-fore the IndianaElectric RailwayAssociation conven-tion at Indianapolis,Jan. 12, and pub-lished in the StreetRailway Journalof Jan. 21. The ac-companying draw-ing was also pre-sented to the con-vention at that time.This constructionis employed on thestreets approachingthe new interurbanterminal station. Wooden ties tohold the track togage are placedevery 12 ft. Con-crete beams are laidunder each rail tosupport the rail.The peculiarity ofthis construction liesin the anchor boltsholding the t i eplates, which wereinserted by Mr. Mc-Math for the pur-pose of preventingthe rails from kick-ing up under thetraffic. This was ap-parently one of theweak points of pre-vious concrete beamc

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