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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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eating to those who are generating cur-rent on a large scale and where coal is not too expensive. The lighting of cars is almost entirely by electricity,five, ten and sometimes fifteen sixteen-candle powerlamps being used in cars, making them very brilliant andattractive by night. Registers are now more generally used than bellpunches or other devices for checking fares, and greatingenuity has been expended in the effort to prevent the Metropolitan West Side Elevated Railway Company, ofChicago, is due the honor of being the first of the largersystems to adopt electricity, although lines in Baltimoreand Hoboken, in which the elevated sections are merelydetails of great surface systems, had previously equippedthese elevated, as well as the surface lines. The equip-ment of the Chicago system is very complete and perfect.The engine plant at present consists of two 2,000 h. p.and two 1,000 h. p. direct connected ui.its, together withtwelve 300 H. p. boilers, which work at a pressure of 165
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FIGS. 46 TO 57.-STANDARD INDEPENDENT MOTOR TRUCKS FOR 16, 18 AND 20 FT. CARS. improper handling of registers and the retention ofmoney by conductors. Street car advertising has become a separate indus-try, a few firms having secured contracts for nearly allthe local companies throughout the country. The indis-criminate placarding of cars, however, such as is foundin many English and European cities is never seen here,as all the cards are placed in neat racks near the roofsinside. ELEVATED RAILWAY WORK. New York, Chicago and Brooklyn have extensivesystems of elevated railroads, but outside of these threecities few roads are operated above the ground. To the lbs. The rolling stock consists of fifty-five motor cars andone hundred trail cars, all built in peculiar fashion welladapted to the purpose. The motor cars are equippedwith two motors, each capable of exerting a draw barpull of 2,000 lbs. when mounted on thirty-three inchwheels and running at ten miles per hour—this beingequivale

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