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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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tion motor. The cost of repairs to motors istrifling compared to what the cost of repairs of locomotiveswould be to work a similar service. To effect repairs thewheels and axles are taken out of the truck frames and there STREET CAR FOR FIRE ENGINES. The Wason Manufacturing Company of Springfield,Mass., has recently completed for the Springfield FireDepartment the truck car which we illustrate. It is designedto furnish a quick and convenient means of transporting fireengines to the outskirts of a city and to all points reached bystreet car lines where the engines may be needed. The carconsists of two four-wheeled diamond trucks of the ordinarypattern but of a somewhat lighter construction than thoseused on steam roads, which are surmounted by platforms onwhich the men can ride with hose, tools, etc., and connectedb) girders from which is suspended a platform to carry thefire engine. The side girders are built up of two channelsseparated by suitable distance pieces, and are permanently
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STREET CAR FOR FIRE ENGINE—SPRINGFIELD, MASS. is no dilliculty in repairing the armatures on the axles. Ido not see that there is any more trouble with the failure ofarmatures with gearless motors than there would be withgeared motors. I do not think that either gearless or gearedmotors make any difference to the track joints as the blowin either case must be the same. There is one motor to each car and when two or morecars are in the train there is electrical connection betweenthe cars so that all the motors can be controlled by themotorman at one point. The cars are never run singlyexcept for shunting purposes and all the cars are electricallyconnected and interchangeable. The third rail consists of a steel channel, 4 sq. in. in crosssection, mounted on porcelain insulators. The surface isabout I in. above the surface of the track and is in the mid-dle instead of on the outside. In favor of this practice Mr.Cottrell says, The conducting rail should be, whereverpractical, put in th

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