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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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r), to restore the car to its original condition and eration of the bridge railroad by these motor cars.Meanwhile they will svvitch the trains, and as each trainis equipped with its own switching power (the motorcar) all the interference which the steam locomotiveshave hitherto placed in the way of the incoming andoutgoing trains, will be done away with, and the com-plexity of the switching be greatlj- reduced. At pres-ent, the time consumed in switching a train is twentyseconds, and in that time a vast number of people gatheron the platforms. With the new motor and the newprinciple of operation it is expected that passengers willat all times have cars waiting for them. Besides thegain in time in the switching process all the inconven-ience of the locomotives—the noise, smoke, steam andgases will be eliminated, and this in itself will be nosmall gain. Car number 76. one of the regular passenger cars ofthe Brooklyn bridge, was selected to receive the first ^iaect5^ailM(ciy-5^Vlc^ 0)9
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BRIDGE MOTOR CAR READY FOR SERVICI,. electrical equipment. All the apparatus, with the excep-tion of the controlling handles and circuit breakers, willbe placed out of sight beneath the floor of the car. Theordinary light Pullman trucks on which it has hithertolun and the cable grip 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

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