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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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ats are located within theends of the locomotive frame. Fig. 32 shows the scheme ofconnections of the locomotive. LIGHTING, HEATINGVENTILATION AND The lOO-volt circuit of the 8-kwtransformer leads to a small switch-board in the baggage room. Conduc-tors are lead off from here for thelighting, heating and ventilation cir-cuits. Small ceiling clusters and armbrackets, provided with three-phaseincandescent lamps and ordinary in-candescent lamps for continuous cur-rent at 23 volts, serve for the lighting.There is in the car a small accumulatorbattery, so that the car will be alsolighted when the trolley is lowered. There is also on theswitchboard in the baggage room a switch for the accunuilatorbattery. The heaters are of the usual type. For the ventila-tion of the first-class cars there are provided low-speed ventila-tors with two blades driven by motors. LOCOMOTIVES The locomotives used for freight service, Fig. 30, have fouraxles, consist of two trucks flexibly connected together. Each
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A = Ti-olley.B — Lightning arrester.C = Junction box.D — Controllers. Mx M.2 M-j Mi = Motors. Al R« R3 Ri — Liquid rheostats. i 2 ^3 1 = Short-circuiting devices. S ~ Ammeter. . FIG. 32.—DIAGRAM OF CONNECTIONS OF LOCOMOTIVE The weight of the locomotive is 46 tons, it is capable at aspeed of 18 m. p. h. to develop a normal traction force of 13,300lbs. and maxinuim 17,600 lbs., and will, therefore, be able toconvey normally up gradients of i in 100 an additional loadattached of 400 tons. During switching both trolleys are in raised position, forthere is no trouble at low speeds in using both for eitherdirection of movement. 798 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (V^OL. XXL No. 22. THE PROPOSED TERMINAL AT ST. GEORGE, STATEN ISLAND Staten Island, which comprises Riclimond, one of the fiveboroughs composing the city of Greater New York, is con-nected to Manhattan by a ferry with boats saiHng on a head-way, in busy hours of the day, of fifteen minutes. The farefrom Manhattan to St. George, a

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