. The street railway review . ourse of ordinary the standpoint of experience, it seems to theReview that the ordinary centering cannot be improvedupon, as it gives down-going and up-going street trafficall the room necessarj on a sufficiently broad road andtakes up only the part of the thoroughfare that is of leastuse to the teamster, namely, the necessary divisionbetween passing vehicles. Circumstances ordinarily dic-tate the position of a track, and Mr. Manley may be The proper handling of the controller is the mostimportant point in a motormans education, and it isalmost impossi
. The street railway review . ourse of ordinary the standpoint of experience, it seems to theReview that the ordinary centering cannot be improvedupon, as it gives down-going and up-going street trafficall the room necessarj on a sufficiently broad road andtakes up only the part of the thoroughfare that is of leastuse to the teamster, namely, the necessary divisionbetween passing vehicles. Circumstances ordinarily dic-tate the position of a track, and Mr. Manley may be The proper handling of the controller is the mostimportant point in a motormans education, and it isalmost impossible to train a man to handle the controllerproperly unless he understands the principles of what isgoing on and the connections that are being made as thehandle is thrown from point to point. Educating a largenumber of motormen who have had no previous knowl-edge of electricity is a difficult task at its best, and any-thing to simplify matters ought to be gladly accompanying illustration is from a blue print which. is supplied to every motorman on the Calumet system ofthis city. On the same sheet with it are a few instruc-tions and a brief explanation of the connections. Theidea of the diagram, as will be seen, is to give the con-nections for each controller point in the same relativepositions as those taken by the controller handle in mak-ing the corresponding connections. This particulardiagram is for the General Electric type K controllerwired to W. P. motors and using the field loop methodof control. Of course the idea is applicable to any con-troller. With plain rheostat control such diagrams wouldnot be worth the while, but where the connections are asnumerous and varied as on series-parallel controllers, any-thing that will simplify matters to the befuddled mind ofthe motorman during the learning period, should beadopted. This department on the Calumet system isunder the charge of H. P. Rustling, who is doing muchto save repairs by a thorough education of the
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