Identifier: streetrailwayjo221903newy (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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it. The portable part of the instrument or telephone box hasa plug and short cord attached to it, for use when the telephoneis used on the line away from the car. Fig. 4 is the plug re-ceptacle containing the jack, which is placed at the pole, andthrough which connection is made with the line. ♦♦♦ ELECTRIC FREIGHT CAR AND LOCOMOTIVE FOR MANATEE LIGHT &TRACTION COMPANY 7/^ ins., with sill plates on the inside 7 ins. x y$ in. The caris equipped with angle-iron bumpers, radial draw-bars, alarmgongs and sand-boxes of Brill manufacture. The trucks areBrill 27-G, with 4-ft. wheel base and 33-in. wheels, and areequipped with 38-hp motors. ALTERNATING CURRENT FOR SIGNALING ON INTERURBANELECTRIC RAILWAYS ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE FOR BRAIDENTOWN, FLORIDA The Manatee Light & Traction Company, of Braidentown,Fla., has received from the American Car Company, St. Louis,the car shown in the accompanying illustration, which is in-tended for carrying baggage and freight and is also to be used
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INTERIOR OF MANATEE FREIGHT CAR AND LOCOMOTIVE as a locomotive. In the Street Railway Journal of May 30a description was given of the Brill type of convertible carsbuilt by the American Car Company for the Manatee Light &Traction Company, in which it was mentioned that Braiden-town is an important shipping center for quite a large district,and is at the mouth of the Manatee River, on Tampa Bay. The doors are placed at diagonally opposite corners of thecar, to admit rails and long pieces of material, such as may beused in road construction. The floor is powerfully framed and Upon invitation a party of railway signal experts, representa-tives of the technical press and others interested in the opera-tion of suburban and interurban electric railways, visitedRochester, N. Y., last week, and was offered an opportunityof examining into the operation of the automatic block signal-ing system of S. Marsh Young, which is owned by the Pneu-matic Signal Company, of that city. This, by the way

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