CCFL323@Brill1906 - Public domain book illustration

Original caption: «Semi-convertible car used for narrow-gage line in Lisbon, Portugal»
Identifier: streetrailwayj271906newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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at a low temperature, which tends to preserve rub-ber and justifies its use in this case. As a reinforced feederfor the third rail, there was installed, in conduit, 9438 ft. ofpaper-insulated, low-tension cable, selected as the cheapestavailable construction for the service, since the installation wasregarded as being of a more or less temporary nature, and be-cause the ultimate life of the cable was not an importantfeature. All the above cable, as well as the necessary wire and cablefor the cars, was furnished by the General Electric Company.The aggregate length of all kinds of wire and cable suppliedfor this installation was 637,243 ft., the sizes ranging from No.12 to 2,000,000 circ. mils. *♦+ ■ the chief means of transportation was a form of omnibus, andthese vehicles, having the same wheel gage as the cars, madeuse of the companys rails, as the streets were roughly paved,and, by charging lower fares, secured enough of the traffic to SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CARS FOR LISBON, PORTUGAL
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When the street railway system of Lisbon, Portugal, com-menced to operate with electricity about five years ago, 120eight-bench open cars, built by the J. G. Brill Company, wereput in service. These cars were mounted on the builders typeof single truck. Two years later the same company furnishedforty twelve-bench open cars mounted on its maximum-trac- INTERIOR OF LISBON CAR tion trucks, and within the last week or two twenty handsome cars of the grooveless-post, semi-convertible type have been prevent adequate returns on the railway investment. Thisshipped. These are not the first semi-convertibles of this type condition of affairs, although interrupted for a time by theto be used in Portugal, as a year ago practically the same style purchase from the proprietor of the omnibuses, continued until the electrification of the lines, when, to avoidfurther use of the tracks by these vehiclesand limit the competition, the gage was re-duced from 4 ft. 8T< ins. to 2 ft. ny2 ins.,too narrow