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Identifier: electricrailwayr19amer (find matches)
Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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e mo-tors of 100 horsepower each, series-wound for 250 volts. Thebattery comprises 112 Plante type cells, having a capacity of300 ampere-hours; General Electric type M control with busconnections for supplying current to a second car, and West-inghouse automatic air brakes. The cooling and heating sys-tem consists of an electrically driven centrifugal pump whichcirculates the jacket cooling water through either the radiatorson the roof or through the heating pipes in the passenger com-partment. The engine end trucks are the Brill 27 E-3 type tocarry 73,000 pounds, and the trailer trucks are the Brill 27 E-2type to carry 42,000 pounds loading. The special equipmentincludes Janney automatic couplers, Xichols-Lintern sandersand Adams & Westlake baggage racks. The interior of the body is divided into an engine room,13 feet long, and two compartments, smoker and parlor. Anobservation platform at the rear will conveniently seat fivepassengers. The total seating capacity is 75. There are
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Strang Gas-Electric Motor Car—Exterior of New 66-Foot Car. electrical connection between the generator and truck motorsand a storage battery. The operation of the car is practicallythe same as an interurban trolley car, but, unlike the trolleycar, it produces its own current and is therefore independentof trolley wire and power house. The generator and enginehave a capacity sufficient for normal requirements, but whenstarting or when ascending a grade the storage battery takescare of the peak of the load. The storage battery is chargedwhile the car is coasting down grades, coming to a stop orstanding still; the gasoline engine running until it is auto-matically throttled as the batteries attain the full capacity. eight double windows in each side of the car and over everyother side post is a small semi-circular window for ventilation.The interior finish is in vermilion wood with ventilating win-dows of art glass and an art glass panel above each doublewindow. In starting the engine

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  • bookyear:1906
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:American_Street_and_Interurban_Railway_Association
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • bookpublisher:Chicago___Wilson_Co
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:915
  • bookcollection:carnegie_lib_pittsburgh
  • bookcollection:americana
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