. The street railway review . cert bands. It is reported that creeping of the third-rail is causing trouble onthe lines of the Puget Sound Electric Ry. A peculiar feature ofthis trouble is that the rail tends to move in but one directionthroughout the entire line which is single track and has no Experiments are now being made with a view to findinga satisfactory method of anchoring the rail. The Latest Design of the Autoniotoneer. No fact in tlie coimection with the operation of electric railwaysis better appreciated than that the improper handling of the carcontroller means a v
. The street railway review . cert bands. It is reported that creeping of the third-rail is causing trouble onthe lines of the Puget Sound Electric Ry. A peculiar feature ofthis trouble is that the rail tends to move in but one directionthroughout the entire line which is single track and has no Experiments are now being made with a view to findinga satisfactory method of anchoring the rail. The Latest Design of the Autoniotoneer. No fact in tlie coimection with the operation of electric railwaysis better appreciated than that the improper handling of the carcontroller means a very serious waste of current. The use of cur-rent involves the heating of the car motors and waste of currentmeans needless and usually excessive heating of motors, which re-sults in excessive repair bills. The use and abuse of car equipmentwas the subject of discussion at the February meeting of the OhioInterurban Railway Association, and the opinion was there givenby a number of master mechanics, who had made a very careful. study (if this qucslion, that from 25 to 35 per cent could be saved by the application of automatic control. It isprobably safe to say that in the long run repair bills would be pro-portionate to the heating of the motors, and therefore that the re-pairs would vary as some function of the current used, and fromsuch data there might be estimated the corresponding saving inmaintenance which the 25 or 35 per cent reduction in current con-sumption would effect. An apparatus to give automatic control that. could be applied successfully and economically to the controllers ingeneral use has for several years been the subject of study andexperimentation on the part of the Carton-Daniels Co., of Keokuk,la., its device, the ,tomotoneer, being known to all of ourreaders. In 1902 the design of autoniotoneer that had given most promiseof success was of a form to be placed within the coutrdller. and
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