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English: Standard motor car carrying passengers, mail, express and baggage
North Shore Railroad — San Francisco to San Rafael


Identifier: streetrailwayjo231904newy (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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FOUR-CAR TRAIN, type, and are equipped with two General Electric 66-motors.For the contact the new Potter collecting shoe, made by theGeneral Electric Company, is used. It is mounted on an oak COMBINING PASSENGER COACHES, MAIL, EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE SERVICE all the motors with current if only one shoe is in contact withthe third rail. Other furnishings of the cars include Janney couplers, Ander-son-Smith arc headlights and inter-ior lights, Westinghouse automaticair brakes on all cars, and Westing-house motor-driven compressorsand governors. The motor carsweigh about 30 tons each, and afive-car train, including two motorcars and three coaches, or trail cars,weighs, equipped, 130 tons. TRAIN OPERATIONUnder usual operating conditionsthree-car to five-car trains are oper-ated, and four trains is the maxi-mum number on the track at onetime. At certain hours of the day
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STANDARD MOTOR CAR. CARRYING PASSENGERS, MAIL, EXPRESS AND BAGGAGE liar fastened to the equalizer, as shown. Thisshoe is practically the same as that used onthe Wilkesbarre & Hazelton third-rail road,and while its general design is very satisfac-tory in that it permits perfect protection ofthe third rail at station platforms, etc., themanagement of the company believes that itsdetails must be modified before it can be satis-factorily adopted for general use. The cars are equipped for train operationwith the General Electric Companys type-Mmultiple-unit control, the only special featurebeing that a bus line, consisting of No. 0000 copper cable, runsthe whole length of the train. This arrangement was madenecessary by long road crossings, its function being to supply

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo231904newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:80
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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