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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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urrent, passingthrough solenoid K L, causes the arma-ture / to be lifted from post A to postB. The switch is operated by the mo-torman having his current on or offwhile passing under the contact block.Even though the tongue may be in theproper position when the motorman ap-proaches, he must operate it just thesame as he would were it.not so. In practice it has been found neces-sary to give very little attention to thisswitch. Every two or three weeks the man in charge lifts thesmall lid of the iron box and scoops out the mud in that endof the box. The entire operation will not take over five min-utes. The idea is not to clean the working parts, but to keepthe dirt from packing around the outer end of the plunger. Itis explained that the mud does not settle around the lever andlinks, because they are higher than the bottom of the slot or gapin the switch guard. Many railways are in the market for auto-matic switches and the manufacturers are busy supplying the abovedescribed apparatus.
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May 3, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 575 Brill Cars in America and Europe The J. G. Brill Company, of Philadelphia, has recently shippedforty open cars to the Companhia Carris de Ferro de Lisboa. Theaccompanying illustration shows thegeneral appearance of these cars. Theyare typical Brill open cars of the usualstrong construction and embody thefeatures for which the firm is noted. The Portuguese capital is, a city ofhills, and the cars have been equippedwith the Eureka maximum tractiontrucks. The length of the-cars over the crownpieces is 36 ft. 23 8 ins., and the widthover the sills is 5 ft. ioJ4 ins. There aretwelve seats, eight of which have re-versible backs, furnishing a seating ca-pacity of sixty. Access and egress maybe prevented on one side, or both, byguard rails which extend from corner-post to corner-post, and slide behindthe grab-handles. When not in use they are held at the top of the posts by Brill patented gravity catches,Leather-covered chains between the corner-posts

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