Electric railway gazette (1895) (14756933114)

Identifier: electricrailwayg04newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway gazette
Year: 1895 (1890s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: New York : (W.J. Johnston Co.)
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Street Railwaycompany and which is now being laid throughFulton Street, New York, by the North & EastRiver Railway company, under license from theBentley-Knight Electric Railway company.In Fig. I is shown an end view of the motors end view of the plows which pick up the cur.rent from the conductors in the conduit andcarry the same to the motors. Fig. 2 shows arear view of the motor and mechanism takenfrom the centre of the truck. It also shows-aplow in section and a section also of the plow- February, 1889 THE STREET RAILWAY GAZETTE. 25 guides which carry the plows, and form a partof the path traversed by the current on its wayfrom the conduit conductors to the commutatorof the motor. In Fig. 2 the conduit is taken ata point between yolces and exhibits the method laid between the rails of an individual track, ashas heretofore been the practice. The peculiar advantage possessed by this typeof construction is that no change need be madein an existing roadbed and that the footing of
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of setting the same in concrete. As will be seenfrom the cuts, the construction differs from anyheretofore employed, in that the conduits furn-ishing the current to a double track street rail-way, are both placed in the space between upand down track, instead of each conduit being the horses and the operation of street cars alongthe line is not interfered with during the periodof change from animal to mechanical motivepower. Over a considerable portion of the line inBoston now equipped by the conduit, cars were constantly running on half minute headway whilethe conduit was being laid. The space betweenthe tracks of a street railway, possess also theadvantage that it is the highest part of the street,the best drained and less used, while slot railslaid there are not open to the objection of caus-ing slipping of horses. The wear and tear on thepavement there is also much less than at anyother portion of the street. Placing the two con-duits together makes but one excavation neces-sary f