. The Street railway journal . with De-denda gongs, automatic air sand-boxes, M. couplers, Gould platforms and two-stemspring buffers. The cow-catchers at eitherend are so placed as not to interfere withcoupling. Brill No. 27 E-2 trucks, with and 6-ft. 6-in. wheel base, are truck frames are 11 ft. 3 ins. long, and theweight of the trucks without motors is 13,000lbs. A General Electric 66-motor is attached to each of thefour axles. The motors are practically the same as those onthe Manhattan L, and are governed by the Sprague multiple-unit automatic control, as embodi
. The Street railway journal . with De-denda gongs, automatic air sand-boxes, M. couplers, Gould platforms and two-stemspring buffers. The cow-catchers at eitherend are so placed as not to interfere withcoupling. Brill No. 27 E-2 trucks, with and 6-ft. 6-in. wheel base, are truck frames are 11 ft. 3 ins. long, and theweight of the trucks without motors is 13,000lbs. A General Electric 66-motor is attached to each of thefour axles. The motors are practically the same as those onthe Manhattan L, and are governed by the Sprague multiple-unit automatic control, as embodied in the contactor management expects that the traffic will soon warrant theoperation of trains of several cars, and for this reason intro-duced this system of control. An interesting part of the equipment is the brake system, saidto be the most complete ever furnished on any form of rollingstock. This is particularly gratifying to those who hope to seethe electric motor become an important factor in long-distance,. HEAVY PASSENGER COACH VVtTH BAGGAGE COMPARTMENT 9 ft. 6 ins.; height from bottom of sill over roof, 9 ft. 8^2 ins.;inside length of passenger compartment, 29 ft. 11 ins.; insidelength of baggage compartment, 11 ft. liyi ins. The cars havebeen built on lines closely approximating steam practice, andfurnishing convincing proof of the advancement that has beenmade in this particular branch of the service. Double sliding doors are provided at the passenger end of thecars, and single sliding doors at the baggage end. Each sideof the baggage compartment has a 42-in. sliding door. Thesliding door in the partition is panelled, not glazed. The vesti-bule side doors are hinged to the vestibule post next the car high-speed and heavy railroading. Experienced steam railroadoperators realize that until this feature is fully understood andappreciated, and the electric system is equipped with safety de-vices for proper operation under steam railroad conditions, itcannot
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