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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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ator, with the windings in deep slots. Inevery detail it is built to withstand the heavy strains whichcome upon it in elevated railway service. The motors aremounted on McGuire trucks and the manner of suspensionmay be noted from the cut. OTTUMWA ROAD SOLD. The Ottumwa fla.) Electric Railway was sold April 28by order of the United States court for $190,000, and passesinto the hands of the Ottumwa bondholders. The plant costabout $400,000, and by this action the stockholders loseevery dollar of their investment. In addition to operatingthe street railway, this company has heretofore done all ofthe municipal, commercial and residence electric lightingbusiness in Ottumwa, but we learn it is soon to have a com-petitor in the light and power business. This part of thebusiness of the old company, it is understood, has beenprofitable, but their equipment is far from being up-to-dateand cannot be operated as economically as that of the newertypes. The new company, to be known as the Consumers
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WALKER 80-H. p. MOTOR FOR BROOKLYN ELEVATED. account of the fluctuating traffic in the morning and eveningon the Brooklyn lines the company has decided to use theSprague multiple unit system and the Walker 20 L motor. This type of motor has been designed and tested by Prof.S. H. Short, vice-president and engineer of the WalkerCompany. They were subjected to the severest tests inservice on the Lake Street Elevated Railroad in Chicago,and the Brooklyn motors will embody all the advanced ideasgained by those experiments. The cars equipped with twoof these motors will have a scheduled speed of 16 miles anhour, including stops. Tn appearance and in design the motors resemble gener-ators. The magnet frame is circular, with the four lami-nated steel pole pieces and pole shoes bolted on the interior.The bearings are all of hard bronze, 10 in. long and 4 in.in diameter. The oil boxes on each side or end of the shaftare filled with oil and contain waste which oils and wipesthe bearings, using t

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