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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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5(x) volls,are mounted upon each car, each motor ),^ivinj.( an outputof 2(j h. p. at 500 volts, turninf^ at ^y^ v. p. ni. These motorsare wound for a revolving speed less than is customary inAmerican (jractice. When testing the speed of the cars, itwas foiuid that one haidinpf two trailers filled with Arabs, agross weipht of 20 tons, obtained a speed (jf 45 kilometers (;ur illustrations show a number of scenes along the line;noi the least interesting feature is that in two <j( the.se scenesthere is nothing save the Turkish numerals on the dash-board of the car to indicate that the picture may not havebeen taken on the I-gypt ICIectric line of Cairo, 111. FREIGHT ON TROLLEY ROADS. One of these days a very large proportion of many articlesof merchandise such as ice, milk, meat, coal and other house-hold necessities, which are now carted aboutour streets—andin many cases a long distance—will be handled in suitablecars on street railway tracks. We are so engaged with other -■ ^4
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SCKNKS ON THE EUIXTKIC ROAD TO THE PVRA.MIDS WESTIN(,Hc )LSE EOUIPMEXT. (30 miles) per hour. The brake controllers are made ac-cording to a special Westinghouse device. When the leveris turned to the brake side of the controller, the circuit be-tween the overhead trolley wire and the ground is. broken,and the motor becomes a generator, the current acting as abrake by retarding the revolving armature. The motor-men are all native Arabs; so are the conductors. Their uni-form is of tight tilting yellow duck cloth, with a black belt. The fare for the journey is five piastres out, and the sameback, equal to about 50 cents, American money. The tripfrom the Bridge to the Pyramids can be made in 14 min-utes, but it is usual to take one hour for the round trip. Thetrams are patronized almost entirely by the native Egypt-ians. The scarcity of European patrons is very marked, butis probably accounted for by the fact that the typical vic-torias of Cairo can be hired for almost the same price asth

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