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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 cents, on which trans-fers will be issued to all the lines, an owl car service has beenorganized which will run hourly, on which a lo-cent fare is charged.The different lines of the company will be connected as rapidly aspossible. May is. 1901.I STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 301 THE UNEASY MOTION OF STEAM CARS. BY JOHN A. BRILL. Passengers on steam railroads constantly notice that at certainrates of speed cars set up a shaking or vibratory motion whichmay be fairly described by the school-boy phrase of joggling.The whole car is in a state of rapid and uncomfortable vibrationwhich appears to be at once both longitudinal and vertical. Itseems as though some giant machine was at work shaking thewhole car. The vibrations are so rapid as to be trying and ofsufficient extent to make reading difficult and writing almost im-possible. AH steam passenger coaches are subject to this defectnhether they are mounted on four or six-wheel trucks. The bigPullman cars are constant offenders in this respect.
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BRILL NO. 27 TRICK. Railroad men have for years been searching to find a remedyfor this action. Most of them now freely confess that they haveno idea whatever of its cause. Some of the great railroad systemsof the country have instituted elaborate e.xperiments for the pur-pose of finding a remedy, and after years of investigation havebeen compelled to admit that they are baffled. Reasons of allkinds have been advanced in regard to it; these reasons havebeen of the most varied character. They have included every-thing between the actions of the draw springs and the movementof the pistons in the cylinders of the engine. The latter theorywas advanced by the late Charles E. Emory and was accepted bymany because it lifted the blame entirely from the shoulders of thecar builder and made it appear as one of the necessities due to theeternal nature of things. The shaking or trembling of the rail-road car appears under such a wide range of conditions as toshow that neither the action of the pi

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