. The Street railway journal . ipment is concerned, they have been entirely satisfac-tory. The maximum speed obtained up to now is 160 km (100miles) per hour. Tests on the Burgdorf-Thun Railway.—First,, the, overload 658 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIX. No. 22 capacity of the passenger cars were tried. These cars were de-signed to haul nominally a total train weight of 50 tons on allgrades at a speed of 39 km (24 miles) an hour. A test train was put together to weigh 70 tons total, i. e., 40per cent overload, and the motors did their work very well in-deed, starting on the per cent grade
. The Street railway journal . ipment is concerned, they have been entirely satisfac-tory. The maximum speed obtained up to now is 160 km (100miles) per hour. Tests on the Burgdorf-Thun Railway.—First,, the, overload 658 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIX. No. 22 capacity of the passenger cars were tried. These cars were de-signed to haul nominally a total train weight of 50 tons on allgrades at a speed of 39 km (24 miles) an hour. A test train was put together to weigh 70 tons total, i. e., 40per cent overload, and the motors did their work very well in-deed, starting on the per cent grade without any trouble what-ever. If, therefore, one of the four motors of a car should everbe temporarily out of order the other three motors will be able todeal with a normal train alone. In actual service neither the motors nor the transformers showany appreciable rise in temperature. The transformers are, ofcourse, under load for short periods only, say ten minutes at a j Acceleration Tests > Train 32 tons Train 55 Ions.
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