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Identifier: electricrailwayr18amer (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
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cember 21, 1907. ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW 959 ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE FOR PORTLAND RAILWAYLIGHT & POWER COMPANY. The General Electric Company and the American Loco-motive Company have recently completed a 40-ton switchinglocomotive for the Portland Railway Light & Power Companyof Portland, Ore., which is illustrated in the accompanyingengravings. The engine is 31 feet long over couplers, therigid wheel base is 6 feet 6 inches, the width 9 feet 6 inches. troubles under excessive- conditions of overload. The maxi-mum torque demanded of a locomotive under starting condi-tions, particularly on a grade, is often four or five times thatrequired under ordinary running conditions, and in switchingservice an electric locomotive is often operated with poweron the motors a very small proportion of the time. The timelost in coasting, making switches without power, waiting fortrains and other delays amounts to over 75 per cent of thetime that a locomotive is engaged in service that could fairly
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Electric Locomotive for Portland Railway Light & Power Company—Side View. and the weight on drivers is 81,000 pounds. The main frameplatform is built of 10-inch channels secured to cast-iron endsills, and the floor is of %-inch sheet steel. The trucks are of the bar frame rigid bolster type, withequalizers and semi-elliptic springs between the equalizers,similar to trucks frequently built for locomotive tenders. The

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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:1004
  • bookcollection:carnegie_lib_pittsburgh
  • bookcollection:americana
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