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Identifier: railwaylocomotiv22newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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series of acceptance tests has beenrecently completed by the General ElectricCompany and the Detroit River TunnelCompany, jointly, upon electric locomo-tive No. 7500, illustrated in our frontice-piece. This is the first of six locomotivesto be operated by the Michigan Centralin the tunnel under the Detroit River. new yards at Windsor, Ont. The electri-fied zone, embracing the tunnel with itsapproaches, terminal tracks and sidings,will cover a distance of approximately33,000 ft. On the approaches a 2 per cent,grade extends for about 2,000 ft. at eachend of the tunnel. The locomotives are designed forfreight, passenger and switching service. electric locomotive, weighing 200,000 lbs.and equipped with four GE-2C19 motors.The articulated running gear may beroughly considered as consisting of twofour-wheel trucks coupled together; butthe method of coupling and the relationof the equalizing schemes on the twotrucks makes it impossible to consider onetruck independeiUly of the other, so that
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ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE FOR PASSENGER AND FREIGHT SERVICE-IN THE DETROIT RIVER TbXNKL. The electrical equipment of this locomo-tive, the most powerful ever designed foroperation by direct current, was built andinstalled by the General Electric Comanyof Schenectady, N. Y. The mechanicalequipment was built by the .-Xmerican Lo-comotive Company. The Detroit Rivertunnel will connect the West Detroityards of the Michigan Central with the The specifications demand service consist-ing of hauling an 1800-ton train on the2 per cent, grade, at a speed of not lessthan 10 m.p.h., with two locomotives inmultiple unit. Their capacity is such thatthey are capable of repeating trips withthis weight of train continuously with alayover of 15 minutes at each end. It is an articulated, four-axle type of accurately described the whole must beconsidered as a single running gearhinged or articulated in the middle. Draftgear, buffers and all truck frame membersare calculated for buffing stresses of500,000 lbs. a

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  • bookyear:1901
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Railroads
  • booksubject:Locomotives
  • bookpublisher:New_York___A__Sinclair_Co
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:472
  • bookcollection:carnegie_lib_pittsburgh
  • bookcollection:americana
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