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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CAR RAKNS. direct current commutator. These machines are self-starting and self exciting. The electric car equipment has several new features.The motor cars all have four G. E. 800 motors. Theequipment is made heavy to make high speed and climbthree heavy grades. The controlling arrangement issomething that is tried for the first time on this road.When running through the country and high speed is as it would be a very diffi:ult job to stop these heavyfour-motor cars with trailers, without something of thiskind. The motor cars seat 40 people. Besides the 20motor cars there are 10 twelve seat open trailers, seating60 people and mounted on double trucks with 24 inchwheels. They were built by the Jackson & Sharp CarCompany, of Wilmington. Several elements in the construction of the road have
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Il.AN CIK BARNS. required the connections made by the controller in start-ing are different from those used within the city limits.The change from high speed to slow speed combinationis made by a switch under the car accessible to aman standing on the ground at one side. With the slowspeed combination the motors are first put all four inseries. Then to get the highest speed possible with theslow speed combination the motors are thrown two inseries and two in multiple. When open country isreached the motorman turns the switch under the carand the connections of the motors with the controllers aremade so that in starting, the motors are put two in seriesand two in multiple and at highest speed are put four inmultiple. On this latter point they will run from 35 to 40miles an hour. The controller is called the type K 4 Band is the same as the familiar type K2 except that thereversing cylinder provides enough connections for fourinstead of two motors. The change of connections forhigh and

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