The Street railway journal (1886) (14781925103)

Identifier: streetrailwa318861887newy (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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. Broadway & Seventh Ave. R.R. Co. 16 m, 4-8V g,47-60 lb r, 227 c, 2240 h. Pres. Henry Thompson, Sec.& Treas. Thos. F. Ryan, Supt. Henry A. Newell.Office 761 Seventh ave. / Central Crosstown R.R. Co. 5.22 m, 4-8X g, 52 lb r,45 c, 241 h. Pres. Geo. S. Hart, V. Pres. A. Cammack,Sec. Milton I. Masson, Treas. E. Burton Hart. Office,365 Ave. A. 6 Central Park, North & East River R.R. Co. 26 m,*-SX g, 60 lb r, 162 c, 1,200 h. Pres. G. H. Scrlbner,V. Pres. C. D. Wyman, Sec. H. Scrlbner, Treas. J. L.Valentine, Supt. W. N. A. Harris. Office, TenthAve.. 53d <fe 54th st. .7. Chambers St. & Grand St. Ferry R. R. Pres. H.Thompson. Christopher & Tenth St. R.R. Co. 5 m, 4-8 g, 45 lbr, 47 c. 290 h. Pres. Jacob Sharp, Treas. W. T. Hatch,Sec. & Supt. G. W. Llnch. office, 168 Christopher st. f Dry Dock, East Broadway & Battery R.R. Co. 18Xm, 4-8X g, 60 lb r, 185 c, 1102 h. Pres. WUliam White, THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 789 THE DAFT SYSTEM -OF- ELECTRIC RAILWAY PROPULSION.
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For Street Railways the DAFT SYSTEM possesses the following named advantages:—Unobtrusiveness of the Electrical Machinery.—It is entirely beneath the car-floor, and the regu-lating gear on each platform requires less space for its operation than the hand brake; besides permit-ting the driver to be always in front, without recourse to a turntable at every reversal of direction. No Disturbance to Balance of Car or Resilience of Springs—Carbuilders have reached the presentexcellence in these lespects only by long and tedious experience, and the Daft System requires nochange of existing methods, as the motive machinery is absolutely independent of the body of the car,and sustained entirely by the axles. NO BELTS, SPROCKET-WHEELS AND CHAINS, OR OTHER OBJECTIONABLE MECHANICAL DEVICES USED. The invariable position of the motor shaft with respect to the car-axle permits the use ofthe only trustworthy means—under the circumstances— of transmitting: rotary motion, viz.: Accurately Cut