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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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each sub- and being much more pleasant from a passengers stand-station, point because of the absence of noise from the gears. TheThe cars operated regularly are as follows : Lars were formerly equipped with Westinghouse automatic Interurban passenger cars 13 air brakes, but these have been changed to Westinghouse Local city cars at Ann Arbor 4 straight ail brakes, because of the greater ease and accu- Freight cars 4 racy with which a motorman can regulate exactly the press-Construction car 1 vire on the brake-shoes with a straight air brake. The first cars built have Baker hot-water heaters. The windows are Total 22 the ordinary steam-road car type on the new cars, the drop On this load five of the 250-kw units are run. sash having been abandoned on this road.The rolling stock on this road is fairly uniform, although The company does most of its own repair work in a well- the sizes, both of car bodies and equipment, have been in- equipped shop at Ypsilanti, which also is the main car
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MACHINE FOR SCRAPING AND RECOVERING FIELD WIRE creased as the road grew older. New cars have a seatingcapacity of sixty people. They contain closets and drinking-water tanks, but no room is taken for hot-water heaters ; theheating is by electricity. The heater would take up theseats of three or four persons unless placed in the frontvestibule. The motor equipment is four WestinghouseNo. 76 motors. The trucks and car bodies were built bythe Barney & Smith Car Company, the trucks being mastercar builders type. Axles are 5; ins. in diameter; wheels,36 ins. in diameter ; wheel tread, 2^ ins., with a bevel at theouter edge to give the outer edge strength, and flanges fins,deep. These cars take from 150 amps, to 200 amps, run-ning at their maximum speed of about 45 miles per hour.The accelerating current is from 150 amps, to 200 amps.,with motors in series, and from 300 amps, to 350 amps,when they are thrown in parallel making ordinary starts.This accelerating current sometimes reaches

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