Identifier: streetrailwayjo241904newy (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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tors, reversers andrheostats. The apparatus for each two-motor equipment is fittedin its own end of the cab, the four-motor equipment being thus splitup into two equipments as far as possible. The contactors are sup-ported from an angle-iron framing built on the floor of the cab, thereversers and resistances being bolted to the floor but raised aboveit so that the cable runways may run underneath them. The airbrake is of the quick-acting pattern. Air is supplied by a BritishThomson-Houston electrically driven compressor of the CP 14type, which is hung underneath the frame. This compressor willcompress against a pressure of 90 lbs. per sq. in. with a cylinderdisplacement of 20 cu. ft. per minute. The air reservoirs and sandhoppers are fixed in the ends of the sloping cabs. The sand is car-ried by flexible tubes to the fixed pipes on the trucks, the air op-erating pipes being connected to the same at the base of the hoppers.A shaded lamp is fixed in each driving corner with three lights
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AX END VIEW OF ELECTRIC FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE USED BYTHE NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY ill each of the sloping ends and a headlight on each end. All lampsare of 32-cp and arranged for working six in series on a 600-voltcircuit. Two portable lights are also provided. As the locomotives have to operate over sections fitted both withoverhead line and third rail, a sliding bow trolley has been pro-vided in addition to the usual shoe-collectors. This bow automati-cally reverses according to the direction of travel of the locomotive,and is also capable of being lowered when not in use from thecab by a hand-wheel. Fig. 2 shows the diagram of connections andmethod of installing the apparatus and the wiring. All cables areasbestos covered, and are run either in wood troughing lined withuralite or in steel tubing. Besides being fitted with the nine-wire coupler at each end for the control circuit, bus or main lineand pump line couplers are also provided, so that two locomotivescan be coupled together if n

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