. Electric railway gazette . n the rated capacity without any run smoothly, and no trouble whatever has beenexperienced since they were first started. The cars running between Lakeview and Nashua are ofspecial make, and hold a place about midway between thesteam railway car and the familiar street car. They arefitted with 16 benches, and are mounted upon two inde-pendent trucks. They are equipped each with two motors, controlled by K2 controllers. Thespeed attained on the open highway between Lake Viewand Nashua reaches as high as 30 miles an hour withoutdifficulty. The
. Electric railway gazette . n the rated capacity without any run smoothly, and no trouble whatever has beenexperienced since they were first started. The cars running between Lakeview and Nashua are ofspecial make, and hold a place about midway between thesteam railway car and the familiar street car. They arefitted with 16 benches, and are mounted upon two inde-pendent trucks. They are equipped each with two motors, controlled by K2 controllers. Thespeed attained on the open highway between Lake Viewand Nashua reaches as high as 30 miles an hour withoutdifficulty. The traffic between the two last mentionedpoints is already very large. be extremely satisfactory. The Consolidated TractionCompany, of New Jersey, has also been making use of thejoint in its new construction, and the Twin City Rapid Falk Cast-Welded Rail Joints. The joint is by far the most troublesome feature of trackconstruction, and many efforts have been made to over-come the difficulties due to this cause. One of the most. FIG. I.—CUPOLA AND FURNACE. interesting solutions is that which the Falk ManufacturingCompany, of Milwaukee, has been introducing. Thiscompany makes a cast-welded joint, and the process whichit follows is illustrated herewith. The system, althoughsomewhat novel in the Eastern States, has been adoptedwith great success in a number of Western cities. InSt. Louis the cast-welded joints have stood the testof great extremes in temperatures ranging from over100 to 20 degrees below zero. The result has been sosatisfactory that this system of joints will be applied to theentire 13 miles of track on Easton Avenue as well as onother lines in the city. It is claimed that the unionbetween the rails is so nearly perfect that it is difficult todetect the joints. It is worthy of note in this connectionthat several miles of the St. Louis track are laid on coun-try roads, where the rails are only imperfectly coveredwith earth; yet no trouble has been experienced with the
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