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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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907. ROADWAY AND TRACK The country through which the roadpasses is level and the only grade ap-proaching 5 per cent is near Kings-ville. Only about seven miles of theroad is on private right of way, the restbeing alongside the highways. Withthe level tracks and almost absence ofcurves the conSitions are ideal forquick runs and easy line construction.No test runs for speed have yet beenmade, as the track is not considered ingood enough shape to run at a veryhigh rate of speed. In the construction between Windsorand Kingsville 80-lb. T-rails are used,but in the remaining nine miles 60-lb.steel is used. The bonds are solderedto the outside of the ball of the railwhere the tracks are outside the towns pin the towns they are soldered under the rail joints.The bonds have a carrying capacity equal to No. 00 wireand were furnished by the Lord Electric Company, of New.York. The rails are fastened with Continuous rail joints. ROLLING STOCK The company plans handling freight, and is now carrying
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CAR, SHOWING PANTOGRAPH TROLLEY AND PECULIAR CONSTRUCTION THROUGHOUT express, as well as passengers. The cars areinterurban traffic by the Ottawa Car Company, and are55 ft. in length, over all. At present the company has fivecars equipped with four passenger trailers and two trailersfor express. The trailers are not in regular use and notmore than one is drawn by a single motor car. There areon each motor car two i6o-hp Westinghouse No. 132- built for January ii, 1908.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 39 motors. These motors are provided with compensating field■coils,for neutralizing the armature reactance. The outside longitudinal sills of the cars are constructed■of 4^ in. X 6 in. and 2 in. x 6 in. oak, placed on edge andseparated by a 6 in. x 5/2 in. steel plate running the entire(length of the car, and which is bolted to the oak. Thereare two other beams parallel to these, each composed of.two pieces of 2^4 i- x 6 in. oak separated by a similar.plate as above, to which they are bolted

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