Identifier: streetrailwayjo291907newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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t one end of the cab, and asingle-pole, double-throw switch is installed to connect themain motor circuit either with the trolley pole with whichthe locomotive is provided or with the circuit of the fourthird-rail shoes. The air brakes are of the new Westing-house electro-pneumatic type with graduated release andquick recharge features. Arc headlights and electrically-lighted markers are pro-vided, and part of the space at each end of the locomotivehousing is given up for tool-box purposes. Special ven-tilators are installed in the sides of the housing, and bot! endand center steps are attached to the frame. A full set of steelsleet brushes of the companys standard adjustable type hasbeen attached to the trucks. The motors are inside-hung.Van Dorn drawbars were used, as on the regular elevatedcars of the system. March 2, 1907.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 387 >w V >H oz in > dwn o oo HW no en H WCJo H o S! OWH > t-H o- H fflW wo H oiz: wf W a oo > «!wW rwo H oo o%o H M<
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V^sheet StG«l 388 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIX. No. 9. The principal work of the first of the two locomotivesconsists in shifting cars in and out of the northern divisionof the Sulhvan Square shops for the purpose of wheel grind-ing or truck changing. About forty-eight pairs of wheelsare ground daily, and the locomotive is constantly at worktransferring cars to and from the special track in the shopswhich is served by an elevator connecting with the machineshop on the ground floor. Ever since electric train opera-tion began in Boston it has been necessary to shift dead carsby a passenger car withdrawn from service. On this car thefacilities for looking back at the rear of the train were notgood, and safe movements could not be made without con-siderable delay in signaling. In the case of the locomotivethe driver can readily see all that is happening at the end ofthe train, and the control is graduated so that the loco-motive can be moved an inch at a time if desired. Elevenelev

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