The Street railway journal (1902) (14781403063)

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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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e. On each car are seven lamps, of whichsix only are in use at one time, viz.: two headlight lamps,two single lamps and three lamps for the interior illumina-tion of the car. The cars are also equipped with electricheaters, and the motor cars are equipped with electriccouplings for the lamps, heaters and electromagneticbrakes on the trail cars. The freight cars are also equipped with electromagnetic brakes. The entire installation was made by the MaschinenfabrikOerlikon and Locher & Co., of Zurich, and cost 318,600 francs. Electric Railway for Havana The plan of the Havana & Janitos Railroad Company,mention of the incorporation of which was made in a recentissue, is to build at this time an electric railway in Havana,with lines to Maraniac and Jaimanitas Beach, about 10miles from Havana. The first concession that the com-pany secured in Havana and from the Railroad Commis-sion of Cuba gave the company the right to build from thePublic Square, Havana, to Marianao and Jaimanitas
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Street Ry .Journal END AND SIDE ELEVATIONS OF OERLIKON MOTOR ley wire has a diameter of 8 mm, and is carried about 6.4m above the track. Four section insulators are employed,and the trolley wire is protected by thirteen lightning ar-resters. Both span and bracket overhead construction areemployed, and the trolley wires are trebly insulated. Thepoles are of impregnated wood. They are from 8 m tog% m in length, and protected and ornamented by cast-iron caps. About 470 poles are employed. The voltage onthe line is 70.1. The rolling stock consists of three motor cars, threepassenger trail cars, and two open and two closed freightcars. The motor and trail passenger cars have accommo-dations for eighteen sitting and ten standing passengers.The length of these cars over buffers is 8.1 m. The carsare mounted on single trucks, with a wheel base of 2 m.The wheels are steel-tired. The cars are furnished withwheel guards and ratchet hand-brakes. The motors Beach, but the company has recently appl