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Identifier: streetrailwayjo281906newy (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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pressor) 2 Door operating device Supports for electrical apparatus Curtains Seats Besides the steel cars above described, fifty-five woodentrailer cars, which had been built six or seven years pre-viously with a view of using them in electrical trains, wereequipped to run in trains with the motor cars; provisions hadbeen made in designing these car bodies for convenientlydisposing the electric lighting circuits, but the class of workthen in use was not considered safe now. These trailers are46 ft. long and 8j^ ft. wide, over all. A view of one of thesetrailers is given in Fig. 23. These wooden trailers had formerly been used in certainLong Island Railroad trains that had been run on the Brook-lyn Elevated Lines between Flatbush Avenue Station and theBrooklyn Bridge. They have open platforms, side doors andcross seats, and seat fifty-six people. They were wired forelectric lighting and heater circuits, and fitted with bus lineand train line connections. The lighting and heater circuits
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Motor truck, with gears and third-rail shoes 14 Two Westinghouse No. 113 motors 14 Trailer truck with third-rail shoes 9, Electrical apparatus and conduit 4, Lights, heaters, flexible conduit and wire mouldings. .. . 520.383.534043899844,129430719^57 82,138Maximum passenger load, estimated 16,000 Total 98,138 AUXILIARY EQUIPMENTThe steel cars as thus constructed and equipped have nowbeen in successful operation for over a year. FIG. 23.—VIEW OF WOODEN TRAILER CAR are supplied by a connection tapped from the bus line througha fuse, and leading to a small switchboard panel from whichthe distribution is made. There are thirty i6-cp lamps ineach trailer. Five electric express cars were provided, equipped with thestandard type of motor and trailer trucks, two 200-hp standardmotors, and with the standard multiple-unit control appa-ratus. These cars are built of wood, 52 ft. 5 ins. over all inlength, 9 ft. 93% ins. in width, and with roof 12 ft. 6)i ins.above the top of the rails. They are

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