Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (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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. That be-tween Aurora and DeKalb will be built first. W. D. Ball,of Chicago, is consulting engineer. The company is backedby a syndicate composed of V. A. Watkins and WilliamGeorge, of Aurora; R. S. Vivian and G. B Shaw, of theAmerican Trust & Savings Bank, of Chicago. An important road joining the Illinois valley chain ofcities is the Illinois Valley Traction Company (22), whichis building from Ottawa (population 10,588) west, throughUtica (1150), LaSalle (10,446), Peru (6863), Spring Val-ley (6214), Ladd (1324), Seatonville (909), and Hollo-way (207), to Princeton (4023). This is one of the Port-land Syndicate roads, of which W. B. McKinley, of Cham-paign, 111., is president. July 5, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 13 Collectors for Heavy Traction BY GEORGE T. HANCHETT When an electric car or system of cars requires morethan 200 amps, for its propulsion, heating and lighting,the problem of collecting this current by means of amovable contact begins to become interesting, and the
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SIDE ELEVATION iC M D! 0 i C y 1 1 PLAN OF SllOE gers on account of tunnels which cannot be adequatelyventilated for numerous reasons. The entrance of greatrailway systems into the large cities present most for-midable problems which usually involve all of these ob-jections with reference to steam. The increasing traffichas aggravated the conditions to such an extent as tocompel the adoption of electricity in several notable cases,and experience gained in these cases will serve as a prece-dent for future enterprises. It is, therefore, not inappro-priate to consider the problem of collecting current anddiscussing its possibilities, for it constitutes one of theproblems, and perhaps not the least, which will requiresatisfactory solution before electric traction can be adoptedfor any of these purposes. The overhead trolley is of course inadequate. Its limithas been reached in suburban and interurbantraffic with heavy equipments of from 300 hpdown. Even with two trolleys under favorableco

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