. The Street railway journal . experienced in takingthe turnouts at various points along theroad; switching has been accomplished withperfect success and the only thing neces-sary to be done was to cut out thefrogs and maintain the continuity of thethird rail by means of a short subterraneancable. In these places the car was carriedby momentum, but of course the distancewas so short that the want of electricitywas inappreciable. In a future issue we expect to illustrateand give more complete details in regardto the construction of the system and the be met, and where neither overhead norsurfac
. The Street railway journal . experienced in takingthe turnouts at various points along theroad; switching has been accomplished withperfect success and the only thing neces-sary to be done was to cut out thefrogs and maintain the continuity of thethird rail by means of a short subterraneancable. In these places the car was carriedby momentum, but of course the distancewas so short that the want of electricitywas inappreciable. In a future issue we expect to illustrateand give more complete details in regardto the construction of the system and the be met, and where neither overhead norsurface conductors will be tolerated onaccount of the disfigurement of the streetswhich would result from their use andtheir danger and uncertainty of service.• Our cuts Nos. 1 and 2 show a fully equip- Upon the extremities of the armatureshaft are keyed pinions which mesh withgear wheels mounted on the central crank-shaft. From this shaft the motion istransmitted by connecting rods running toeach wheel. All parts of the machinery. FIG. 1. END VIEW OF CAR. peculiar details of the mechanism whichhave been employed. TheBentleyKnight Electric Railway. The Bentley-Knight system of electricmotive power for tramways has beenbrought prominently forward by the grantof a franchise to the North and East RiverRailway Company, whose line runsthrough Fulton street, New York, to Walland Pavonia Ferries, in which franchisethis system is expressly named. The patents of the Messrs. Bentley andKnight, who were for years electrical exam-iners in the United States Patent Office, areespecially applicable to the use of electric-ity in the paved and sewered stree ts of cities,where the exacting requirements of muni-cipal authorities and of heavy traffic must
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