. The Street railway journal . yits own weight and makes the necessary connections foroperating on alternating current. The relay is entirely en-closed. A diagram of connections is supplied with eachcompressor and relay, and the leads are all tagged so thatno wrong connections need be made. The compressor is suspended in a cradle under the carbody. This allows the pump to be exposed to the coolingeffect of the air at all times. None of the parts of the sus-pension cradle obstructs access to the compressor. Therelay is mounted under the car body with the capacity of the a. c. d.
. The Street railway journal . yits own weight and makes the necessary connections foroperating on alternating current. The relay is entirely en-closed. A diagram of connections is supplied with eachcompressor and relay, and the leads are all tagged so thatno wrong connections need be made. The compressor is suspended in a cradle under the carbody. This allows the pump to be exposed to the coolingeffect of the air at all times. None of the parts of the sus-pension cradle obstructs access to the compressor. Therelay is mounted under the car body with the capacity of the a. c. d. c. type of compressor is 25 cu. free air per minute. The standard National type Noil pneumatic governor is furnished in connection witha. c. d. c. air brake equipments, and will operate equally aswell on either direct or alternating current of these equipments with compressors, as described,were recently furnished the Milwaukee Electric Railway &Light Company for service on its new interurban RELAY FOR A. It is reported that the syndicate of American and Cana-dian capitalists which has been operating in Brazil for sometime, mainly in connection with traction and lighting prop-erties, has secured control of a number of steam roads andis planning extensions and improvement that will result inan expenditure of from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000. Amongthe members of the syndicate are: Sir Win. Van Horn,Frederick S. Pearson and Lauman Bull, of Edward Sweet& Company, of New York. August io, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL 231 GASOLINE MOTOR CARS FOR INSPECTION SERVICE The general interest felt in gasoline motor cars for rail-road service has called attention to the application of thispower to inspection cars. Fairbanks, Morse & Company, ofChicago, have done a great deal of work in this direction,first with a small velocipede car and later with a larger carfor section gangs, signal service, track inspection, trolleyrepair work, etc., in p
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