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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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CAR HOUSE AT SHARON Wason, Jones and Stephenson Companies, and areequipped with trucks made by the Peckham Manufactur-ing Company. The largest cars, which are 50 ft., vesti-buled interurbans, weigh 25 tons, and, as seen from theaccompanying illustration, are first-class examples of themodern heavy electric railway car. There are also 30-ft. that several different classes of fares can be rung up, andincludes in its mechanism a device by means of which aprinted record of all the business done by the car can bemade at the end of each trip on a roll of paper contained inthe case and a slip which is torti off at the end of the daycontains this record.
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STANDARD INTERURBAN VESTIBULED CAR vestibuled cars. The open cars are of various sizes, having10, 12 and 15 benches apiece. There are 16 4-motor equip-ments for the larger cars, consisting of Westinghouse-56motors. The remainder of the motor cars all have 2-motorequipments, Westinghouse 12-A motors being used for thesmaller and No. 56 for the larger cars. The closed cars The cars which are used in the city service have in ad-dition to the usual brakes, a Peckham emergency brake,operated by a wheel mounted on a concentric brake staffimmediately below the ratchet handle. Twelve of theinterurban cars are equipped with the Price momentumfriction brake, supplied by the Peckham Manufacturing August 2, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. MS Company, New York, and four with air brakes and motor-driven compressors, built by the Christensen EngineeringCompany, of Milwaukee, Wis. There is one freight loco-motive, built by the Wason Manufacturing Company, ofSpringfield, Mass., mounted on Peckham truck

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