Cyclopedia of applied electricity : a general reference work on direct-current generators and motors, storage batteries, electrochemistry, welding, electric wiring, meters, electric lighting, electric railways, power stations, switchboards, power transmission, alternating-current machinery, telegraphy, etc. . 8 SELF-PROPELLED RAILWAY CARS Light Single=Truck Railway Motor Cars. Where the passengertraffic is small or irregular on branch lines of steam railways, andon street railway lines operating under similar conditions, it has fre-quently been a problem incapable of solution to provide a serv
Cyclopedia of applied electricity : a general reference work on direct-current generators and motors, storage batteries, electrochemistry, welding, electric wiring, meters, electric lighting, electric railways, power stations, switchboards, power transmission, alternating-current machinery, telegraphy, etc. . 8 SELF-PROPELLED RAILWAY CARS Light Single=Truck Railway Motor Cars. Where the passengertraffic is small or irregular on branch lines of steam railways, andon street railway lines operating under similar conditions, it has fre-quently been a problem incapable of solution to provide a service. c O03 rO o OS that would pay expenses. In many cases, the gasoline-driven motorcar has solved this problem, and it is likely that it will come into wide-spread use in this field. 412 SELF-PROPELLED RAILWAY CARS 9 Fig. 6 shows a single-truck gasoline motor car capable of seatingtwenty-three people in the passenger compartment, and with roomfor several additional passengers and baggage in the engine com-partment. The car shown is built by the Fairbanks-Morse Co.,Chicago, and is single-truck, with an over-all length of 30 ft. 3 in.,the length of the body being 26 ft. 3 in. Fig. 7 gives several views of the power plant of this car. Theprime mover is a 50-H. P., water-cooled, four-cycle, gasoline is by means of storage batteries with spark-coil and magneto,using a double set of spark-plugs. The engine is started by means
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