. Electric railway journal . August 5, 1911. ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 245 PERFORMANCES OF STORAGE BATTERY CARS The Federal Storage Battery Car Company, New York,has issued some striking average figures on the daily per-formance of Beach cars equipped with Edison batteries. Adouble-truck car carrying 190 cells and four 15-amp, 200-volt motors ran miles, made stops per mile, pro-pelled a weight*of tons at over an averagemaximum grade of per cent and required only watt-hours per ton-mile. Its longest run on one charge was 135. Storage Battery Car for Suffolk
. Electric railway journal . August 5, 1911. ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. 245 PERFORMANCES OF STORAGE BATTERY CARS The Federal Storage Battery Car Company, New York,has issued some striking average figures on the daily per-formance of Beach cars equipped with Edison batteries. Adouble-truck car carrying 190 cells and four 15-amp, 200-volt motors ran miles, made stops per mile, pro-pelled a weight*of tons at over an averagemaximum grade of per cent and required only watt-hours per ton-mile. Its longest run on one charge was 135. Storage Battery Car for Suffolk Traction Company miles over the tracks of the Erie and Pennsylvania rail-roads between West Orange and Atlantic City, N. J. Thecorresponding average figures for seven single-truck carsequipped with 90 to no cells and two 30-amp, 85-voltmotors were as follows: miles daily, stops permile. 7 tons total weight, watt-hours per ton mileand grades up to 8 per cent. One of these seven cars, asfurnished to the Suffolk Traction Company, is shown inthe accompanying illustration. The individual record ofthis car is as follows: Ran no miles a day, made five* stops per mile, carried seven passengers per car mile,operated over grades of per cent to per cent andrequired watt-hours per ton-mile. The weight of thiscar is 7 tons, and its wheel-base is 8 ft. 6 in. It is gearedfor a schedule speed of 22 including stops. This carhas taken the place of steam equipment on a branch of theLong Island Railroad. It makes eight round trips a dayan
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