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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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FORD, ONT. 988 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL (Vol. XLVII, No. 22 rollers and spring pinch fixtures. All of the cars, bothpassenger and trailer, are provided with twenty-sevenlow back walkover seats and eight stationary seats, allupholstered in Pantasote. Each walkover seat is fittedwith the usual corner hand grab. Each set is connectedto an annunciator push button system. Eight basketracks are installed in the main compartment, and twoin the smoking compartment. The car is equipped withemergency tools. A lavatory is located adjacent to the swing door inthe body. A water cooler alcove is provided in the cor-ner of the saloon partition. Instead of the usual metalcooler, an inverted glass water bottle scheme has beendeveloped. Car wiring is inclosed in steel conduit, with the usualoutlet and junction boxes. The lighting of the cars isof an attractive and serviceable design. There is alighting system of three circuits, twelve lights to eachcircuit. There are four large globes in the center of
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LAKE ERIE & NORTHERN RAILWAY—TRACK AND OVERHEADCONSTRUCTION AT PARIS, ONT. the ceiling, each containing three lamps, and twelvesingle-lamp droplights on each side of the flat lowerdeck. There is a separate circuit for the four markerlights, which are fed by two batteries. The Canadian Westinghouse Company has suppliedsix 1500-volt quadruple motor equipments, electricalequipment for two trail cars and air brakes for bothmotor and trail cars. Each motor car equipment con-sists of four 85-hp. ventilated motors, with AB unitswitch type of control. Ordinary wheel trolleys will beused at first, but the cars are so arranged that panto-graphs can be installed in place of the wheels or asauxiliaries. The trailers are equipped with control ap-paratus, so that a train may be operated from any plat-form without switching the cars. Tomlinson couplersare provided for train operation. The trucks weigh 12,800 lb. each or 25,600 lb. percar. The air-brake equipment, including the compressor,weigh

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