. Electric railway gazette . t completed truck, representing one halfof the locomotive, was made upon the tracks at the Schenec-tady shops of the General Electric Company. In order toobtain the necessary load, a heavy six-wheel engine wasmade use of and the electric locomotive truck coupled to machines were then sent in opposite directions andtugged at the connecting coupling as in a tug of war. Theelectric locomotive had a slight advantage over the steamengine in weight on the driving wheels, and pulled it upand down the track with apparent ease. For the sameweight upon the drivers it
. Electric railway gazette . t completed truck, representing one halfof the locomotive, was made upon the tracks at the Schenec-tady shops of the General Electric Company. In order toobtain the necessary load, a heavy six-wheel engine wasmade use of and the electric locomotive truck coupled to machines were then sent in opposite directions andtugged at the connecting coupling as in a tug of war. Theelectric locomotive had a slight advantage over the steamengine in weight on the driving wheels, and pulled it upand down the track with apparent ease. For the sameweight upon the drivers it was shown that the electric loco-motive starts a greater load than the steam pull being constant throughout the entire revolution ofthe wheel, the difficulty of variation of pull with the anglecrank, as in the steam locomotive, is eliminated. Thetest also proved that not only are the motors sufficientlypowerful, but that the driving mechanism and armaturecouplings are amply strong to transmit the torque of the. OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTION IN THE CUT. armature to the axle. Each motor is rated at 360 hp andtakes a normal current of 900 amperes. The controlling devices and measuring instruments, etc.,occupy the interior of the cab. The controller is erectedin one half of the cab, and is of the series-parallel type. 30 ELECTRIC RAILWAY GAZETTE. Vol. XIII. No. 2 The reversing lever projects through the upper plate of thecontroller cover. The resistances are placed around theframe beneath the floor of the cab. The locomotive is equipped with a 1,200 to 3,500 auto-matic circuit-breaker and one 2,000-ampere magnetic cut-out, a 5,000-ampere illuminated dial Weston ammeter andone illuminated dial Weston voltmeter. The compressedair for the whistle and brakes is supplied by an oscillatingcylinder electric air-pump, the air tanks being placed ateach end of the complete locomotive. The interior of thecab is illuminated by clusters of incandescent lights. Contact with the overhead c
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