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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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ises. One is aprojected underground and elevated electric railway systemwithin the city. Up to the present the electrical system hasnot yet been selected, but the contract for the elevatedstructure will soon be awarded. The other line is a subur-ban railway, connecting Ohlsdorf, Hamburg, Altona andBlankenese, belonging to the Prussian Government. Thisline is being equipped with the Winter-Eichberg system ofthe Allgemeine Elektricitats-Gesellschaft, and will be openedon Oct. 1, 1906. The power house contract was dividedamong Brown, Boveri & Co., Siemens-Schuckert Works andLahmeyer & Co. , The rolling stock of the Blankenese-Ohlsdorf line willconsist of 51 two-motor car units. That is, each unit willbe composed of two motor cars, each mounted on threeaxles, and permanently coupled together. There is a singletruck under the outer end of each car, and a single runningaxle under the inner end. The car, which carries the cur-rent-collecting apparatus, carries the switches and trans-
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Flo. 8.—INSTRICTION ROOM FIG. -INTERIOR OF GYMNASIUM ropes, dumb bells and clubs, wrestling mats, boxing gloves,punching bags, Roman rings, etc. Four shower baths areprovided and 350 lockers, sufficient for all the members, noextra charge being made for the use of either bath or locker.Even considering the considerable expense to which thecompany was put in building, equipping and furnishing therooms, the officers feel that the investment was an exceed-ingly profitable one, as not only has a kinder and more unsel-fish feeling been engendered among the employees toward thecompany, but a decided improvement has been noticed in itsefforts to secure and keep in service conscientious and effi-cient men. The men appreciate the broad-gage policy so sub- former for the high tension, and has both of its truck axlesmotor-driven, whereas the second car carries low-tension ap-paratus only, and has but one of its axles (the outside one)motor-driven. The first car is divided into a motormanscab,

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