. The Street railway journal . of this kiud. The power for gen-erating the electricity is obtained from two it is possible for a traveling contact to passover the wires uninterruptedly from end toend of track. This traveler, runniEg upouthe overhead conductors, brings the cur-rent to the motors in the cars by means ofa double flexible cable, the latter being soarranged that it can readily be transferredfrom one car to auother. In order to effectthis, the cables hanging from the travelerson the overhead wire are fastened withtheir lower terminals to a cross bar made ent case the motors are |-la
. The Street railway journal . of this kiud. The power for gen-erating the electricity is obtained from two it is possible for a traveling contact to passover the wires uninterruptedly from end toend of track. This traveler, runniEg upouthe overhead conductors, brings the cur-rent to the motors in the cars by means ofa double flexible cable, the latter being soarranged that it can readily be transferredfrom one car to auother. In order to effectthis, the cables hanging from the travelerson the overhead wire are fastened withtheir lower terminals to a cross bar made ent case the motors are |-laced on the frontplatform of the car, so that the driver cansit near the motor and have at once fullview of the road upon which he is the motor is placed upon t ie front plat-form of the car, it is at all times under theeyes of the driver. This enables him totake good care of the machine andto see that all working parts are in goodorder and kept clean. From this point hecan also attend to oiling of the shafts, etc ,. turbines coupled together, and which arecapable of developing 100 horse are used to run a 60 horse-powerdynamo. The electric current so generated is con-veyed by means of two heavy copper wiresxip to the overhead wires for a distance ofabout one mle. Here the feeders are elec-trically connected to the double overheadwires, these being placed over the centerof the track, about eighteen or twenty feetfrom the ground, and forming an exactcounterpart of the track below. Theseoverhead conductors are so susjiended that THE APPLETON ELECTRIC RAILWAY. FIG. 1. of some good insulating substance. Tothe center of the crossbar is attacheda handle, and if the handle be graspedthe terminals of the cables can behooked into two corresponding sockets, fas-tened to the under side of the roof on thefront end of the car. From these socketsthe current is led by means of insulatedcopper conductors to the motor and to aswitch, and, in the usual way, by turningthehandl
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