Identifier: electricrailway421913newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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o the strap-iron step, asillustrated. These screens each consist of six Vs with theapexes facing outward to expose the largest possible area.The filters are protected by a wire cage, but the wholebattery is arranged for easy removal and replacement.After the air has been drawn through the intake duct andover the heaters, it passes into the car, whence it is dis-charged underneath the car between the trucks by meansof a %-hp motor which has a capacity of 1000 cu. ft. perminute. The ordinary rate of discharge is 700 cuminute. In the passenger compartments the airhausted through a louver in the partition back ft. peris ex-it the MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT The body is carried on two Standard C-55-P trucks of6-ft. i-in. wheelbase and furnished with 4*4-in. x 8-in.journals. These trucks carry four Westinghouse 310-C-2motors arranged for field control and HL multiple-unitoperation. The motors are geared for a maximum speedof 60 m.p.h., in view of the fact that this car is for use on
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KESJ Electric /£</. Journal Public Service Private Car—Cross-Sectional Elevation high-speed right-of-way sections as well as on city tracks.The braking equipment comprises the General Electric-Companys air brakes with CP-27 compresser and the Pitts-burgh hand brake of the Dayton Manufacturing Company;The dashers, which are protected with Hedlev anti-climb-ers, support Knutson No. 5 trolley retrievers, Tomlinsoncouplers, one GE removable luminous arc headlight forcountry use and two Golden Glow incandescent headlightsfor city use. The shim type brake slack adjuster of theNational Coupler Company, now standard on this system,is also used. Other outside equipment comprises H-B lifeguards and Hanlon air Sanders. Car replacers are installedbehind the bumpers, and a set of wrecking tools and lamps

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