Identifier: streetrailwayjo251905newy (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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rated its accuracyand convenience. In addition to the speed measurements, accurate readings atfive-second intervals of motor electromotive force are recorded,and the current record is continuously checked by means of adirect-reading ammeter in the same circuit. The direction andvelocity of the wind are also taken at frequent intervals, accu-rate anemometers having been supplied by Queen & Companyfor the purpose. The tests on the Louisiana, as the air-resistance car hasbeen named, will continue until sufficient data are at hand todetermine the resistance to the motion of different shapes of 5*2 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXV. No. 12. car front at all speeds reached by modern interurban cars upto 70 m.p.h., this limit being set by the line and motor capaci-ties. A speed of 72 m.p.h. has been reached for a short period. During the past few days another important investigation hasbeen completed by the use of a car exhibited by the Cincinnati TICKETS AS A PRIZE IN A GUESSING CONTEST
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The West Pennsylvania Railways Company, of Connellsville,Pa., has inaugurated a novel guessing contest. To the firstpassenger guessing nearest the number of miles run by thepassenger cars of the company during themonth of March, 1905, will be given abook of tickets good for 100 rides on anyline of the system. Guesses must be madeon coupons cut from Trolley Talk, prop-erly filled out and in the companys handson or before April 1. Employees of thecompany are not to compete. Announce-ment of the winner will be made in Trol-ley Talk for April. WIND TEST CAR WITH PARABOLIC VESTIBULE Car Company at the Exposition. This car is supplied with thesame motor equipment as the Louisiana, but it has, in addi-tion, the latest type of Westinghouse electro-pneumatic control.The tests made upon this car were designed to supplement thosepreviously made, and to supply important data, not only in re-gard to the control system, but having reference in general toheavy interurban car operation problems. An i

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