Identifier: electricrailway531919newy (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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PORTION OF WAYBILL, SHOWING DAILY CLASSIFICATION OF PASSENGERS, NUMBERS AND REVENUES April 26, 1919 Electric Railway Journal 821 sary, relief conductresses are provided and fifteen tothirty minutes time is allowed for making a final reportat the end of the day. Improved Rolling Stock The standard Aberdeen car is of the double-deck typewith windshields instead of vestibules. It is 30 ft.long over all including two 6-foot platforms open onthe boarding side and with an emergency exit gate(used in prepayment days) on the inner side. Thetrucks are Brill 21-E with two Westinghouse 25-hp.motors on the earlier cars and GE-200-K 35-hp. motorson the later cars. Hand brakes of the ordinary type areused on most of the cars, but sixteen of more recentconstruction have been fitted with Peacock brakes whichare more popular with the men. The Westinghousemagnetic brake is used only on grades or in other emer-gency conditions. Although the seats in the upper deck are of slat,home-made manufacture, thos

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