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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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n LenoxAvenue, New York. One of the chief points of interest in New York to a visitingstreet railway manager, whether a resident of this country or fromabroad is the electric railway conduit system on Lenox Avenue.This line, as is well known, forms part of the extensive surface sys-tem of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company and connects withthe terminal of the Columbus Avenue Cable Railway. The difference in ease of riding is very noticeable as a passengertransfers from a cable to an electric car. The cars start up easilyand soon acquire full speed. The line crosses one cable line at 125vStreet and Lenox Avenue. The engraving on this page gives a goodidea of the appearance of the roadway. Automatic Circuit Breakers for Cars. The motors and other appliances of street car equipments havehitherto depended for protection against injury from excessive cur-rents on the common safety fuse in its box placed beneath the carplatform and more or less inaccessible. The blowing of the fuse en-
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Electric Launches for Pleasure Kesorts. The electric launch as an adjunct to parks and resorts providedwith lakes or situated on river banks, is an attraction which hasproved in almost every case a profitable investment. The steadilygliding boat, propelled by an unseen power appeals strongly to thepublic which frequents these places and wherever an electric launchhas been installed, it has rarely been allowed to rest unpatronizedduring the day and evening except for purposes of charging. Street railways owning parks with navigable lakes have in sev-eral instances found electric launches a cheap and profitable invest-ment to add to the others provided to allure the paying public. VIEW ON LENOX AVENUE, NEW YORK. tails delay until the motorman replaces it, and as a certain time istaken by a safety fuse to blow considerable injury may be done tothe motors and other car apparatus in the interval in which it isreaching the melting point. To avoid this delav the General Electric Company conc

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