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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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the passenger cars is 49 ft. 8 ins. in lengthover the bumpers, and is of the St. LouisCar Company steel bottom semi-convertibletype. The remaining one is 48 ft. 2 ins. inlength. Both are provided with Peter Smithhot water heaters and cross seats coveredwith rattan. They are equipped with GENo. 70 motors, K-28-A controllers andChristensen straight-air brakes. The ex-press car is provided with four GE 57motors and two K-14 controllers. As it isemployed to haul railway freight cars, it isprovided with automatic brakes and M. C.B. automatic couplers. With a gear ratio of 16 to 71, the carpulls trains of three loaded coal cars, each of 66,000 lbs. ca-pacity, over a 2J/2 per cent grade without difficulty. It is,however, the intention to reduce the gear ratio. Practically no trouble has been experienced with the elec-trical equipment since the road was put in operation. On itsfirst trip an armature of the freight car was burned outthrough carelessness, Init other than this there have been no
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GENERATING UNITS IN THE POWER HOUSE armature troubles of any description. Under the presentsystem one passenger car shows 34,800 miles, and anotherpassenger car has a record of 42,000 miles without any re-newal of armature bearings. The freight motor, with a mile-age of 27,000, however, has had tv/o pairs of bearings re-newed. All motor bearings are provided with oil lubrication,oil being used in the grease boxes of the motors on thefreight car. Bearings are inspected and oiled on the carevery second day, while the passenger cars are gone over once May 26, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 815 each week. The absence of trouble with the electrical equip-ment is due in a great measure to the method employed toprevent over-feeding by the motormen. The scheduled timeis rigidly adhered to, and this enables the engineer at thepower house, by noting ammeter readings, to accurately des-ignate a careless motorman. When a line breaker goes outrecord is sent to the general manager, together with th

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