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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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gineer, C. C. Martin, at the manner in which thework \\as performed. The use of electricity in place of steam for switching bear the cost of the experiinent. This offer was ac-cepted. If the general plan adopted at first pro\ es economicalas well as satisfactory, a certain numl^er of cars will beequipped with four motors, one on each axle. Thesecars are to be known as motor cars and each will remainwith its own train at all times, switching it from the in-coming to the outgoing tracks and pulling or pushing itover the tilting sheaves when the grips will take up thecable and the motors cease work. Should the gripsslip while the train is mounting the 3.78 grade, themotors can come again into requisition and assist tlietrains over the summit. Moreover, during the earlymorning hours when traffic has become light and thecable is no longer running, the trains can be operated en-tirely bv motor cars. a» they now are b\- the locomotives.The e\entual outcome will probabK be tlie exclusive op-
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THE NEW MOTOR TRUCKS AND A BRIDGE LOCOMOTIVE. the cars at either end of the BrooklAn bridge has beenrecognized as the mosi suitable method ever since theelectric railway motor became a practical fact. But notuntil the motor had been adapted to heavy train servicedid its employment in the bridge service become possi-ble. Experiment is not a function of a municipal body,such as that governing the operation of the bridge; con-sequently it hesitated to apply electricity to bridge trac-tion service, until it was certain that if applied it wouldwork without a hitch. To enable the trustees and the engineer the better tojudge of the advantages which electric motive powermight offer over the steam power hitherto employed forswitching service, bids were called for the proposedelectrical equipment. The General Electric Companyoffered to fully equip one car. operate it for thirty daysand at the end of that time, if the results were not satis-factor), to restore the car to its original condition a

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