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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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burban Railway,Seattle, has some G. E. 1,200 motors mounted ondouble maxiinum traction trucks and pulling trailers. NEW CARS AT DETROIT. Manager Dupont. of the Detroit Citizens Company,has turned out of its shops a 24-foot car mounted on asingle truck. It is strengthened by trusses and sills andwill seat 36 and carry 80 passengers. If the experimentis a success, a 26 and a 28-foot car will be tried. For not insulating a feeder the Cincinnati Street Rail-way is sued by a telegraph lineman who was thrown tothe ground bv an electric shock. (^ttxfcctli\aiUv!a^ 19 DIATTO CONDUIT AT TURIN. An expeiiuiental section of conduit load known asthe- Diatto s_ystem, is being tried at Turin. Itah. Theconduit is closed and the current taken from contactplates between the rails and located at intervals some-what less than the length of the car. Under the car is a long iron strip A. magnetized bythe magnets M M. When this magnetized strip passesover the contact pins C in the roadbed it makes electrical
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Fia-3.LATEST ELECTRIC RAILWAY CONDUIT. contact w ith them and. furthermore, raises by magneticforce the plunger D. so that electrical contact is madebetween the surface contact pin C. which is normallydead, and the underground feed cables. The plungerI), rests in a small cup of mercury, thereby securing agood electrical contact without enough friction to inter-fere with the raising of the plunger by magnetism. Thesection of track has been operated through one winter. ALL ON ONE FLOOR. The sixth tloor of the Gartield building, Cleveland, istaken up by street railway company offices. They areall interurban lines, and the officers call it InterurbanRow. First is the Cleveland & Berea. and Cleveland &Elyria;next Cleveland, Painesville, & Eastern, and Akron,Bedford & Cleveland, and next the Lorain & Cleveland. DAMAGES BY WRECK WAGONS. The Atlantic avenue road, Brooklyn, has appealedfrom the decision of the City court, which awarded$5,000 damages to VV. A. Northridge. Th

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