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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ad service. For short branch lines or for suburban freight orpassenger traffic, where it is not convenient to equip the carswith motor-driven trucks, electric locomotives may be operatedeconomically, but this, of course, is governed largely by localconditions. One of the most promising fields for electric loco-motives is the switching service, either for heavy or light traffic.Where the service is intermittent, as, for instance, at railway ter- 354 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XX. No. u. minals and on docks and in industrial plants, they are especiallyeconomical. There are some classes of industrial establishmentsto which electric locomotives are particularly well adapted, as forinstance, in lumber mills, on account of the fire risks or where- haul sugar-cane from the plantations to the grinder. This alsois a 4-wheeled, 2-motor equipment. Fig. 3 shows a 4 ft. 81/. ins.gage switching locomotive weighing 13 tons. This locomotiveis employed at the Atlantic Coast Lumber Companys yards in
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FIG. 2 —HAULING SUGAR CANE FROM HAWAIIAN PLANTATION TO GRINDER ever the smoke and gases from steam locomotives would be ob-jectionable. Seve-al examples of recent installations of this kind are illus-trated in the accompanying cuts. Fig. I shows an equipmentemployed by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for haulingcoal and ashes at its power plant. This is a 4-ton, 4-wheeledlocomotive of the mining type, equipped with two direct-currentmotors and a trolley pole standard. Fig. 2 shows another typein use by the Hawaiian Electric Company. It is employed to Georgetown, S. C. It is a 4-wheeled locomotive driven by twomotors capable of exerting a full load draw-bar pull of 4500 lbs.at a speed of 6 miles an hour. A .series-parallel controller isused on this locomotive, and permits of a speed of 3 miles anhour with the motors operating in series. Probably the mostinteresting example for the steam railroad men is that presentedin the illustration of the Carnegie Steel Companys equipment,Fig.

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