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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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amemotor that drives the table also operates the hauling machinery.A ijowerful band brake is provided for stopping both the driving(hum and the table itself. The trolley wire for supplying current to the transfer table iscarried along the edge of the pit wall. Standard glass insulatorsare fixed in the brick wall, top first, being held by mortar. Pinsare screwed into the instdators and on their ends carry porcelain.spools on which the trolley wire rests. Attached to the table is abronze arm with a hook at the end over which the wire runs; thearm is placed so thai the hook clears the insulators, and in con-sequence the wire is lifted from the insulator spools as the carruns back and forth. A iAxsA in. angle is fastened to the wallabove the wire to protect it. The return circuit through the trackrails. This form of trolley support is quite usual in crane prac-tice but so far as we know is new as applied to transfer tables. Our illustration shows the table before the cab for protection of
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LORD HALTIMORE MAXIMUM TRACTION TRUCK. connecting axles. The remaining two wheels are the drivers andarc connected by an axle, to which is geared the 2S-h. p. Westinghouse railway motor by which the table is operated. Mounted uponthe table is a system of clutches and a winding drum to be usedin pulling cars on and off the table. The speed of the table is con-trolled through two clutch gears operated by one lever and givinglow speed for heavy work and high speed for lighter work; there the operator was completed. The cab will be built about the ver-tical angles, and the motor will be protected by boxing. CARS ANIJ TRUCKS. The United Company owns about 1,500 cars of various makes,the larger number being Brownell and Brill, part ofwhich arc single truck and part double truck. It is of in- 470 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (VOL. XL, No. 8. terest to note that after considering the relative merits for acombined city and suburban service, of double truck cars with fourmotors to a car, and ma.Nimum

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