The Street railway journal (1905) (14738555616)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo251905newy (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
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to weather when the win-dows can be opened. One has only to ride in a crowded, closedcar, even with the windows put down, to realize the difficultiesof effective ventilation. There is no panacea at all available.We should like to see the use of ventilating fans to keep the airmoving tried, but we are not over sanguine as to the practicalresults. If the air is changed fast enough to be of much use,half the passengers will kick over the drafts about their necks,and the other half will complain of air about their feet. Thespace is too small and the people are too many for thoroughlyeffective ventilation. 54Q STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXV. No. 12. RECENT WORK OF THE ELECTRIC RAILWAY TESTCOMMISSION The field work of the commission approaches completion,the test corps now being at work upon the lines of the IndianaUnion Traction Company investigating the problem of airresistance in the motion of car bodies. As will be remembered,the commission, consisting of J. G. White, H. H. Vreeland,
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WIND TEST CAR WITH WEDGE-SHAPED VESTIBULE the test corps designed and constructed the special brake rig-ging necessary to adapt these to the steel car frame. A power-ful hand-brake rigging was also constructed, with the Peacockbrake drums supplied by the National Brake Company. Specialbumpers were constructed to prevent damage to other cars incoupling, and heavy chains were used to prevent excessivemotion of the car frame with respect to the trucks. As theframe was raised considerably above its usual height by thechanges mentioned, this was considereddesirable. The dynamometer equipment, consist-ing of an interurban car body, 32 ft. long,without vestibules, rolls freely upon railsscrewed to the flat car floor. This body,with a special steel vestibule and a stand-ard vestibule, was supplied by the J. G.Brill Company. Under the side sills ofthe dynamometer body are mounted eightChapman double-ball bearings, and thesecarry four axles of 3 7-16 ins. diameter,9 ft. long. Upon the axles are