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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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VILU.XCE UK PR.\Z D EN H.\UT AND VIEW OF THE ACUILLES VERTES ON CHAMONI.\ RAILWAY. Sept. x. iqo4.1 STREET RAILWAY KIAIEW. 573 =o near the ground, under a tension of from 500 to 550 volts, thethird rail is protected in front of all the stations and for a lengthof 10 ni. on each ?ide of grade cro-sings by a wooden covering. Theinsulation of the third rail is obtained by means of wooden blockstreated with paraflfine, which are mounted on the ends of two con-secutive ties. The rolling stock was built by the Socicte cut cars are mounted on the ^anic kind of trucks, tlu- kiUcr nciuycomposed of a frame mounted on two axles witli a track brakeand equipped with an electric motor on each axle. The apparatusir.r collecting current is of fini.shed cast steel and these are ar-ranged so that they can follow or leave the third rail withoutshock. The third rail is curved down slightly at each inlcrnipliou.
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ARR.\NT,F.MEXT OF TUlKh K.ML. \ouve11e des Etablissments dc ITlornic et de la Riiire, of Lyons,and the electrical equipment was installed by the Societe dElectricitc.\lioth of Miinchenstein-Bale. The rolling stock comprises 80 mo-tor cars and a number of lighter trail cars. .Ml the motor catscan be either operated singly or m trains, and cars are controlledby a single operator m either case. In order to attain this resultA special and very ingenious controller was devised by M. Auvert, so that the shoe enters or leaves it on an indnu-cl plane. The ar-rangement of the motors oflfered great difficullios but the solutionadopted gave unexpectedly good results. The motors are placednt right angles to the axles and transmit the motion through a bev-eled pinion, which is geared to the axles through an elastic pinionwliich contains in ite

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