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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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the performance of their duties. To accomplish this the management has not only designed amost complete set of instructions, but in addition has provided and one devoted to a series of questions and answers as to howto detect causes for failure of train movement and the methodsof removing them. In this connection it should be said thatthe management believes in instructing the motormen so thatthey are able to make minor repairs to both the air and elec-trical equipment on the road. This is because the volume oftrain movement on the line will be so large that a delay of evena few seconds, not to say of the longer time which would berequired if inspectors or trouble-men were sent for, would seri-ously interfere with the successful operation of the line. The course of instruction followed with the new men on theSubway is as follows: The school car instructor first giveseach of the motormen a lesson to learn from the instructionbook. When this is acquired the lesson is followed by various
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A VIEW FROM OPPOSITE END OF INSTRUCTION CAR, SHOWING AUTOMATIC COUPLER AT RIGHT AND ROW OF BRAKE CYLIN-DERS ALONG LEFT-HAND SIDE OF CAR a school car that contains all of the mechanical and electricalapparatus comprising the car equipment. The motormen are first provided with an electrical and auto-matic air-brake instruction book that contains descriptions andillustrations of the principal apparatus on the motor cars, andalso a list of questions and answers pertaining to train operationand what to do in emergencies. This book, which is probablythe first of its kind ever published devoted to multiple-unittrain operation and control, contains some fifty-two pages, be-sides illustrations, and is divided into three sections, viz: air-brake instructions, with a description of the air-brake ap-paratus ; a similar section devoted to the electrical equipment, object lessons on the school car, thus affording each pupil am-ple opportunity to obtain sufficient knowledge of the apparatusbefore th

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