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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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one-fifth of its esti-mated completed value. An interior view of the cab shows the general arrangementof control apparatus and auxiliaries. The motors are con-trolled in pairs, each by their original series-parallel con-trollers ; the two controllers are connected mechanically, asshown, by an ingenious operating mechanism, which keeps bothcontrol and reverse staffs absolutely in step under all condi-tions. The control and reverse handles are also reversible, sothat the motorman may operate from either side of the cab,and for this purpose the air-brake valve is duplicated upon bothsides of the cab also. The circuit breaker is located in the cab,as shown, being provided with a rope leading from its handlearound to one side, so that, in emergency, a quick stop may bemade by opening the breaker. The large switches shown inthe middle of the cab roof are the double-throw switches, bywhich the motor and auxiliary circuits are thrown either onto February 25, 1905.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 351
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GENERAL VIEW OF THE ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE RECENTLY BUILT BY THE BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT COMPANY FORSHIFTING PURPOSES AT ITS LARGE ELEVATED DIVISION OVERHAULING SHOPS AT THIRTY-NINTH STREET

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