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Identifier: streetrailwayjo241904newy (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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e City Council, will permit the Metropolitan Elevated to make aturn-out on Van Buren Street and thereby complete a little loop of its own.This will allow the turning around of the trains that enter the stub terminal,thus greatly increasing its capacity. Progress is reported in the work ofequipping the cars with the multiple-unit control system. Traffic on the Lake Shore Electric Railway was interfered with fora short time a few days ago by a vessel entering Black River and tearingdown the high-tension lines which had been strung across the river on twohigh steel towers 140 ft. tall. It appears that the feeders, which are ofaluminum, had sagged considerably, owing to the extremely long span. 136 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIV. No. 4. RECONSTRUCTED CARS OF PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY,OF LOS ANGELES, CAL. An interesting example of what may be done by an electricrailway in rebuilding and equipping for efficient service carsthat apparently are only suitable for the junk heap, has recently
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FIG. 2.—REBUILT PASSENGER MOTOR CAK been set by the Pacific Electric Railway Company, of Los An-geles, Cal. About the time of the incorporation of this com-pany, two years ago, it purchased three motor cars and twelvetrailers or coaches that had been operated in trains on the rail- tered to meet the local conditions. Each car is equippedwith four G. E. 51 motors, rated at 80 hp each, and pneu-matic trolley bases have been fitted on them. One of thesecars has been in constant service on the Long Beach lineof the Pacific Electric Railway for some time, and is usedfor the flyer service, morning and evening, making a speed regularly of a mile a minute. Thereconstructed car is 55 ft. longover all, and weighs 62,500 lbs.,while the standard 250 type carof the company is 49 ft. 6 ins. inlength and weighs 64,700 lbs. The trailers were originally 40ft. long and had no windows,being as shown in Fig. 3. Six ofthese cars have been rebuilt intoexpress cars of the type illus-trated in Fig. 4, and

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1904
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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo241904newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:169
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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