Electric railway gazette (1895) (14779148773)

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.)
Contributing Library: MIT Libraries
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ze the station of the Cam-bridge Electric Light company, and placetherein five 30 h. p. generators and completeswitch board for operating the same. The steamplant is already being placed in the station, andwork of setting up the generators begun. When the road is equipped with the presentorder which has been received from the WestEnd Street Railway, 20 cars will be running fromBowdoin Square to Arlington, each of whichcars will have sufficient power to run a tow car.All cars will be lighted with electric lights andequipped with head lights. Bentley-Knight Electric Conduit System. We illustrate in this issue the electric conduitsystem of the Bentley-Knight company, show-ing the new form of conduit which haslDeen laidby that company through Boylston and Beacon and mechanism employed by the Bentley-Knightcompany in the construction of their new stand-ard trucks, and a section of the conduit takenat a yoke, showing the extreme limit of spaceoccupied by the conduit. Fig. i also shows the o
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wI I, a streets, Boston, for the West End 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