. The Street railway journal . ould be ob-jectionable. Seve-al examples of recent installations of this kind are illus-trated in the accompanying cuts. Fig. I shows an equipmentemployed by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for haulingcoal and ashes at its power plant. This is a 4-ton, 4-wheeledlocomotive of the mining type, equipped with two direct-currentmotors and a trolley pole standard. Fig. 2 shows another typein use by the Hawaiian Electric Company. It is employed to Georgetown, S. C. It is a 4-wheeled locomotive driven by twomotors capable of exerting a full load draw-bar pull of 4500
. The Street railway journal . ould be ob-jectionable. Seve-al examples of recent installations of this kind are illus-trated in the accompanying cuts. Fig. I shows an equipmentemployed by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for haulingcoal and ashes at its power plant. This is a 4-ton, 4-wheeledlocomotive of the mining type, equipped with two direct-currentmotors and a trolley pole standard. Fig. 2 shows another typein use by the Hawaiian Electric Company. It is employed to Georgetown, S. C. It is a 4-wheeled locomotive driven by twomotors capable of exerting a full load draw-bar pull of 4500 a speed of 6 miles an hour. A .series-parallel controller isused on this locomotive, and permits of a speed of 3 miles anhour with the motors operating in series. Probably the mostinteresting example for the steam railroad men is that presentedin the illustration of the Carnegie Steel Companys equipment,Fig. 4. This comprises an 8-wheeled electric locomotive haulinga heavily-laden freight train. Two motors are FIG. 3.—ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE HAULING LUMBER^TRAIN OF ATLANTIC COAST LUMBER COMPANY September 13, 1902.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 355 All of these locomotives have been built and equipped by theBaldwin Locomotive Works and the Westinghouse Electric &Manufacturing Company, which have been engaged jointly ininvestigating the special requirements of this service and develop- the motors exactly the same as if hung between the wheels withsingle gears. Small 4-wheeled pedestal-type locomotives usually have framesmade of wood, substantially put together in the same manner as
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