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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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motor car through the citystreets. All freight trains are under the jurisdiction of afreight train dispatcher to whom the train crews report atcertain points as ordered. ROLLING STOCK Although the City of Mexico is situated in a tropical lati- est interurban cars are mounted on two M. C. B. typetrucks having a 6-ft. wheel base and are equipped withfour GE-.87 60-hp motors and Type M multiple-unit con-trol for interurban use, but 011 the city cars GE-70 motorsare used. Wrought-iron or cast-steel center steel-tiredwheels 34 in. in diameter are the standard for all motorcars. Most of these wheels are imported from Englandand are made by Baker or Hadfield. All motor gears areof the keyed-on solid type. The trolley stock is well suitedto the service which it has to perform, and but little troubleis experienced in keeping it in good and serviceable con-dition. Frequently every car which the company owns ispressed into use on holidays. Owing to the indifference of trainmen to proper ventila-
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Mexico City Tramways—Carpenter Shop tude its elevation of 7500 ft. above sea level gives it amild equable climate throughout the day. After sundown,however, there is sudden fall of temperature and the nightsare quite cool. For this reason closed motor cars are usedin preference to open cars. A few first-class open trailercars are used during the rush hours, but not at night, whenthe travel is light. All passenger cars, both of the openand closed types, are wide enough to permit the use of acenter aisle. Transverse seats are used on all but a fewsecond-class cars. Both platforms of the closed cars arevestibuled and the steps are guarded by folding gates. Of the 325 electric motor and trailer passenger carsowned by the company 49 are mounted on single trucks andthe remaining 276 are mounted mostly on short wheel-base double trucks with outside-hung motors, but the new- tion of the cars and the general preference of the passen-gers to have the windows closed in order to avoid drafts,au

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