. Electric railway gazette . nt and stone,of the conduit—fifteen inches conduit used in thisThe ties, yoke andand firmly rivetedThe conduit itselfThe small sizedeep—makes itpossible to construct it at small cost, and yet haveit substantial. The conductors which are placedin this conduit are small copper wires, such asare used on the elevated lines, supptnted on pe-culiar porcelain insulating brackets at short inter-vals. It is not re(iuircd in this system to usemassive conductors to transmit power, for onehundred cars can be run on the current carriedby a small wire as well as one car. The cur
. Electric railway gazette . nt and stone,of the conduit—fifteen inches conduit used in thisThe ties, yoke andand firmly rivetedThe conduit itselfThe small sizedeep—makes itpossible to construct it at small cost, and yet haveit substantial. The conductors which are placedin this conduit are small copper wires, such asare used on the elevated lines, supptnted on pe-culiar porcelain insulating brackets at short inter-vals. It is not re(iuircd in this system to usemassive conductors to transmit power, for onehundred cars can be run on the current carriedby a small wire as well as one car. The currentcollector triivels on these conduit conductors inthe same manner as on the elevated 3 is a perspective view of the car for use in this system, a part of the bodyof the car being removed to show the position oftilt, /otor The front compartments are all warm weather for better ventilation of the motor is immediately under the eye of thedriver, and perfect oiling and attention are in-. FlG. 3. sured. Another position is between the axles ofthe car and entirely concealed by the floor aboveand a dust tight box around it. This position ger coaches. In many cases a portion of thismotor car is utilized as a smoking car. The carsare lighted with incandescent electric lamps, andelectric headlights are attached to the front ofthe cars. It is necessary in the transmission of powerfrom the motor to the car wheels to use the mostdirect and positive method known to the company have adopted spurgearing. Fig. 5., as this precludes the possibilityof a failure in action and gives the least possibleloss in transmitting the power. They use gearwheels of cast steel cut with great precision, andpinions made from rawhide held firmly betweenplates of steel. The teeth of these pinions arecut to match accurately the teeth in the gearwheels so as to have a train of gears which runat any speed with absolutely no noise. The motor truck, mount
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