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Identifier: streetrailwayrev06amer (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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ip mechanism have been removed.Heavier trucks were necessary to carry the motors.These were supplied by the McGuire company of Chi-cago and combine the best features of the passenger andlocomotive truck. The general character of tlie motor equipment issimilar to that in use on the Chicago Metropolitan Ele-vated and Nantasket Beach roads. The motors, how- ever, are lighter, being the G. K. 1,200. Four of thesemotors are emplojed, one to each axle or two to each truck.The Eickemeyer winding is used on the armature. Bv thismethod the crossing of two wires of large difference ofpotential is avoided. The insulation is substantial and eachsegment of the- commutator is of hard drawn copper.The armature is mounted on a slee\e keyed to the shaftwhich may be withdrawn without interfering with thearmature structure. The field frame is of cast steel.The ratio of reduction between the armature shaftpinion and the wheel gear is 3.5 to i. Each motorweighs about 3.000 pounds. \\ith this equipment and
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THE TRUCKS WITH MOTORS. (^f^ifwdif^^jA)/^ the rejjiilar train a speed of about Infteen miles an hourma)- be obtained. Each motor is suspended on the truckfrom two trunnions in the upper field set in two bars,the outer ends of the bar resting- on elliptical springs.The axle is thus relieved of nearly all the weight of themotor. At the base of each motor, facing the ends ofthe car is a small roller which depresses tlie cable and

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