. The Street railway journal . BERLIN CAR WITH AIR RESERVOIR ON ROOF at the forward end, and forming a little vestibule in which eightsecond class passengers may ride, six standing and two sitting onlittle folding seats that shut up to permit of swinging the doorsopen when this end is to the rear. Eighteen first class passengersmay sit inside, and ten more second class may ride on the rearplatform. The fare within the city is, first class, four cents, andsecond class, two cents. For many years tramways have been operated in Paris by steamor compressed air motor cars hauling trailers, and these
. The Street railway journal . BERLIN CAR WITH AIR RESERVOIR ON ROOF at the forward end, and forming a little vestibule in which eightsecond class passengers may ride, six standing and two sitting onlittle folding seats that shut up to permit of swinging the doorsopen when this end is to the rear. Eighteen first class passengersmay sit inside, and ten more second class may ride on the rearplatform. The fare within the city is, first class, four cents, andsecond class, two cents. For many years tramways have been operated in Paris by steamor compressed air motor cars hauling trailers, and these areequipped with the Soulerin automatic air brake. The compressor,placed on the front platform (the cars always run one way) whichis occupied by the driving mechanism, stands vertically, and is ac-tuated, through a bell crank under the car, by an eccentric on the. PARISIAN ELECTRIC CAR WITH STEPS AT SIDE axle with a long connecting rod, so the vertical motion of the carbody has practically no effect on the stroke. This brake has givenvery good satisfaction, but the speed rarely attains 15 miles perhour; this compressor could not be used on electric cars, as its lo-cation on the platform would be objectionable, as also the longconnecting rod. In England, on the Liverpool Overhead Railway and the Waterloo& City and the City & South London, the Westinghouse automaticbrake is used, the air being stored in reservoirs carried on thetrain. The latter road, however, is equipping its new electric loco-motives with Standard compound motor-driven compressors andwill have twelve in service shortly. The Central London Under-ground Railway electric locomotives will all be equipped withmotor-driven compressors supplied by the Christensen Engineer- Junk, 1899.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 407 ing Company. The surface tramways have begun to use the airbrake
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