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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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e end is fitted with a baggage com-partment, 8 ft. 934 ins. long, with a sliding door on each side.The minimum distance from the track to the bottom of the silli 37M ins., which allows a minimum clearance of ins.above the top of the motors. All trailer car bodies are similar to the motor car bodies and thereby being adapted to operation by multiple-unit controlwhen desired. Each four-motor equipment, with a gear ratioof 1.54, fifty-seven-tooth gear and thirty-seven-tooth pinion, isguaranteed to propel a 50-ton train consisting of a 30-ton motorcar and a 20-ton trailer at 56 m. p. h. on a level with 33-in.wheels at 550 volts. WEIGHTS The motor cars weigh 30 tons empty, and the trail cars 16tons, the total train weight with full-seated load being 51 tonsand 54 tons with standing load. ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES The freight equipment is composed of an electric locomotive,operated by four General Electric 66 motors, gear ratio 3.94,and has the capacity to haul a 275-ton trailing load at a speed
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ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE AND TRAIN OF FREIGHT CARS so designed that they may be converted into motor cars whendesired. The bell cords are designed to make a continuoustrain line if it is needed. TRUCKS The motor cars are mounted on extra heavy Brill No. 27-Etrucks, having chilled cast-iron double-plate wheels, 33-in.diameter, ^yi-in. tread and i-in. flange. The wheel base is6 ft. The trucks weigh approximately 9000 lbs. each, and areduplicates, except wheels, of those of the Brooklyn Elevated.The axles are 6J/2 ins. in the gear fit, 6 ins. in motor linings,with 414-in. X 8-in. journals. The support for the third-rail shoe consists of a cross pieceof wood fastened to lugs cast on the boxes, and is designedfor a third rail located with center line 21 7-32 ins. from thegage line of the bearing rail, and with top of rail 7J/8 ins. abovetop of bearing rail. The axles of the trailer trucks are 4)4 ins. in diameter, andthe journals 3-)4 ins. in diameter. The wheels are 33 ins.diameter like the mo

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