. Electric railway journal . FRONT OF EMPIRE STATE REMODELED CAR, SHOWING CLASSIFICATION BULLS EYES, AND LONG TRAIL CAR TRANSFORMED INTO INTERURBAN MOTOR CAR Decreasing Governor Maintenance By James W. Brown Superintendent of Shops Wilkes-Barre & Hazleton Railway,West Hazleton, Pa. THE accompanying illustration shows a governor changed from a double to a singlecontact. This company has ten equipments of , now twelve years old. Up to five years agowe had a great deal of trouble with this governor due tothe contacts burning off, the average length of time inserv
. Electric railway journal . FRONT OF EMPIRE STATE REMODELED CAR, SHOWING CLASSIFICATION BULLS EYES, AND LONG TRAIL CAR TRANSFORMED INTO INTERURBAN MOTOR CAR Decreasing Governor Maintenance By James W. Brown Superintendent of Shops Wilkes-Barre & Hazleton Railway,West Hazleton, Pa. THE accompanying illustration shows a governor changed from a double to a singlecontact. This company has ten equipments of , now twelve years old. Up to five years agowe had a great deal of trouble with this governor due tothe contacts burning off, the average length of time inservice being about three months. They run now from. i GOVERNOR CHANGED FROM DOUBLE TO SINGLE CONTACT shopping to shopping, which means from eighteen totwenty-four months, and during the time since thechange we have had no failures. This change wasbrought about by our air-brake inspector, Dave Kauff-man. We put a long sliding contact on the coil sideof the governor. This contact is a piece of tobin bronze3% in. long, % in. wide and *4 in. thick, with about 3-lb. tension on the contact and only charged when thegovernor cuts in. We made a sliding contact out of tobin bronze on ac-count of its superiority over copper, as we found thattwo sliding contacts of copper do not wear smooth andsoon cut, resulting in a sluggish governor, whereastobin bronze with a copper contact sliding on it wearsvery smooth. 94 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL Vol. 51, No. 2 Experiences with InterurbanCar Axles The Author Gives the Results of Experiments withSeveral Kinds of Steel—Wheel Fit Was Increasedfrom 6 In. to 7 In. with Good Results By A. B. Metcalfe Master Mec
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