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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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two meat cars and a work car with derrick.The G. E. No. 80 double motor equipment is used on thelatter cars. Twenty additional eight-bench open cars havealready been ordered and will be re-quired as soon as received. The tramway system was designed bythe well-known American engineer, A.W. McLimont, who has also directedthe installation. The entire electricalequipment was supplied by the GeneralElectric Company; the open cars by theStephenson works of the J. G. Brill Com-pany, of Philadelphia; the trutks andspecial cars by the McGuire-CummingsCompany, of Chicago, and the poles,brackets, etc., by the Elmer P. MorrisCompany, of New York. All of theorders were placed through the firm ofW. R. Grace & Company, of New York. *^^ favor of a double-jointed current collector very similar tothat used on the same companys Murnau-OberammergauElectric Railway, described in the Street Railway Jour-nal for April i, 1905. The accompanying illustration gives 2000-VOLT TROLLEY IN THEMOSELLE DISTRICT
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INTERIOR OF THE REPAIR SHOP OF THE LIMA TRAMWAY SYSTEM, SHOWING The attention which is being given by THE PIT AND GENERAL REPAIR EQUIPMENT electrical engineers in this country to high-voltage direct-current work will give additional interest a view of this collector. As will be seen, it consists of an to a recent installation made by the Siemens-Schuckert Com- insulated structure carried on the cab, supporting a col- pany, of Berlin, at Maizieres in the Mozelle district in lapsible frame on which are hinged the two light bow

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