Identifier: streetrailwayrev05amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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on the level, andmake a schedule time of 25 miles including stops and slow speed oncurves and grades. The motors should be mounted one on each truck.The controlling apparatus should consist of the ordinary series parallelcontroller, worked by hand, and an air brake outfit of the regular West-inghouse type, with an air compressor operated by a separate motor au-tomatically controlled by the air pressure. Believing it to be absolutelynecessary to use air brakes on these high speed cars and trains, we havedesigned an air compressor with a special small motor to be placed in themotormans cab. When the air pressure reaches a point below normalin tl.e main reservoir, the current is automaticallv turned on, and the 362 (jiiticctS^mWay-j^y^^ motor pumps in air till the pressure is restored; then the current is cutoff from the motor. This air pressure may be made to operate a signalwhistle, and to force water from a tank under the car into wash basins,closets, and drinking faucets. s^^pHS^Pf^
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Many roads are now being projected and built, like the branch linesof the Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central Railroad uponwhich the Iratlic will require a train of two or more cars, and a speed offrom 40 to 45 miles an hour must be maintained on a level with a fullyloaded train, in order that a schedule time of 35 miles per hour may be UTonCar wirtT Double 50 H.P. Equipmcnf WtiqhrCompltit.UoadKl = 22Torti THE WALKER MANUFACTURING CO C LEVELAND.OHIO. % Grade Speed Hour ToralCurrent H.P iffici«r\q HoriionfilForce 0 35.5 54 28 777 294 Vx 29.5 67 37 82.3 460 1 •25.6 83 47 84.7 6 70 IX, 23.1 37 55.5 856 886 2 21.4 110 63.4 86.0 1090 2-k 20.0 123 70.6 86.0 1300 3 19.0 134 7 7.2 86.0 1500 3X 13.2 146 84.0 85.8 1710 4 17.5 158 90.6 8 5.6 1935 4X, 16.9 169 96.7 85.2 2150 5 16.4 180 102.2 84.7 2360 46Ton Train-2 Cars-2-100 H.PiMofors t<i«hCar Em(»*% t«..cl»a »( 4q«, pmT )-14 Tom j \ THl VVALKER MANUf*CTURINGCO.,CLEVELANO,0 ; 7. Grade Spied Mil&t perHour TofQl Current H.P

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