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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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lectrified; in thisway many horses have been killed. Another serious objec-tion is the fact that the pavement around the buttons wearsaway after a while and the protruding buttons greatlyimpede ordinary traffic. Compressed-air cars are being rapidly replaced by elec-tric equipments. Electric accumulator cars are generallyequipped with rapid-charging batteries. The charging isaccomplished at the terminal stations after each trip andrequires from nine minutes to twelve minutes. In order toavoid the objectionable odors penetrating the interior ofthe cars, and to prevent the spilling of the acid on the carfloors, experiments are being made with the view of en-tirely enclosing the batteries while in service. Along thesides of the car glass windows have been placed in front ofthe battery compartment, and the batteries may thus beobserved at any time. The accumulator cars arc equippedwith the Westinghouse automatic air brake. The com-pressed air is carried in a reservoir on the car The over-
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VIEW IN-CAB ON WESTERN RAILWAY OF FRANCE head and underground trolley cars arc equipped withelectromagnetic and hand brakes. Generally, one traileris attached to each motor car, but the compressed-air carsrunning between Lonore and Versailles and Lonore andSt. Cloud often have three or four trailers attached, sothat one train has carrying capacity for 200 persons. The Paris passenger cars are usually heated by meansof hot water bottles, which are replenished at the terminalstations. The Compagnie Generale des Omnibus hasheated all its horse cars and trailers since 1898 by meansof the Fabre slowly burning coal briquettes. These areplaced in sheet-metal boxes which are so arranged thatair is freely admitted and gases are emittc-d through aper-tures in the car body to the outer air. The Rowan and Ser-pollet cars are heated by means of exhaust steam. On theSt. Germain road the cars are heated by means of ther-mophor. The Compagnie Generale Parisierne des Tram-ways heats its cars by circul

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