The Street railway journal (1904) (14759752234)

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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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gearing are the same as usedin the regular Oldsmobile runabout, and the motoris started by cranking the same while the car isstanding, in the same manner as the ordinaryautomobile. The car is built for standard gage, has a 62-in.wheel base, oak sills, 20-in. pressed steel wheel,M. C. B. pattern, cold-rolled steel axles, Hyattroller bearings and powerful brakes of the ex-panding clutch type. These cars have ample ca-pacity for water and gasoline to run the car 100miles or more, and the cost of operating is veryslight, as a gallon of gasoline is sufficient to driveit from 20 to 25 miles. One of these cars has run something over 3000miles on a large railroad where there are gradesas high as 3 per cent, and has demonstrated itscapacity for running at a satisfactory speed upthese grades with a full load. From a full stop on a maxi-mum grade, the car quickly develops a speed of 20 miles perhour. In operating the car in backward motion it is gearedto run at about one-half the forward speed.
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RAILROAD INSPECTION CAR The Railway Appliances Company, of Chicago, is the soleselling agent for these cars in the United States. With the driving of a couple of silver spikes on Nov. 21,President Mellen, of the New Haven Railroad, completed atMuddy River, 10 miles north of New Haven, the last link inthe chain of trolley lines between New York and Boston. The Cincinnati, Georgetown & Portsmouth Railway Com-pany expects to complete its extension to Russellville by Christ-mas. The extension is 8 miles long and necessitated the erec-tion of three steel bridges from 260 ft. to 312 ft. long, and threevery heavy fills. The Bethel & Felicity Railway Company hasplaced a contract for constructing a 6-mile road from Bethelto Felicity as a feeder for the Cincinnati, Georgetown & Ports-mouth Railway Company. December 3, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1019 THE CHICAGO & MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC RAILWAYSNEW CARS 65-hp motors, operated by the type M control system. Thecars are heated by ho