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Identifier: streetrailwayrev161amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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INTERIOR OF CAB ON MOTOR CAR. sufficient room for the apparatus to be carried under the car. It is also considered safer on the tube line to have the apparatus en-closed in the cab. A very complete block signal system has been installed, worked with a pressure of 60 volts between one of the track rails and the negative conductor-rail. Automatic train stops are included in thesignal system.
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INTERIOR ELEVATION AND FLOOR PLAN OF MOTOR CAR. dimensions. Owing to the limited head room in a tube railway it isnecessary to keep the floor of the car as low as possible, and inorder to get the motor truck, motors, and 36-in. wheels into thespace the floor of the car above the truck is raised as shown inthe drawings. This method of construction, it may be remembered,is used on the motor cars on the Waterloo and City Ry. Therest of the floor of the car is only 22 in. above the rails. Thereare two G. E.-66 motors of 200 h. p. each mounted on the drivingtruck of each motor car and all the motors are controlled fromone cab by the Sprague-Thompson-Houston multiple-unit system. On week-days trams run at intervals of two or three minutes,while on Sundays the time between trains is about four minutes.Train attendants open and shut the iron-work ?ates on the carplatforms after the style carried out on the Central London Ry.The fare for any distance is two pence, and books of 25 ticketsran be

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