. The Street railway journal . s. H. SHORT ONE OF THE EARLY SHORT-SERIES ROADS track was made of T-rails laid on crossties, the two conductorsbeing supported on insulators between the rails. The car hadfour wheels and a rigid truck; the motor was geared with onepinion and one gear to the axle. The car body was 8 ft. long,and fitted with a rheostat lever and reversing lever. The suc-cess of the road was so great that a party of capitalists induced. VAN DEPOELE RAILWAY IN JAMAICA, N. Y—1887 spring pressure; the current was supplied by compound-wound,constant-potential dynamos; the motors were se
. The Street railway journal . s. H. SHORT ONE OF THE EARLY SHORT-SERIES ROADS track was made of T-rails laid on crossties, the two conductorsbeing supported on insulators between the rails. The car hadfour wheels and a rigid truck; the motor was geared with onepinion and one gear to the axle. The car body was 8 ft. long,and fitted with a rheostat lever and reversing lever. The suc-cess of the road was so great that a party of capitalists induced. VAN DEPOELE RAILWAY IN JAMAICA, N. Y—1887 spring pressure; the current was supplied by compound-wound,constant-potential dynamos; the motors were series-wound andwere journaled on the car axles at one end, the other end beingspring supported; the gearing was encased and ran in oil; thepractice of using two pairs of tapering brushes was discardedand a single pair which abutted the commutator was substi-tuted. An independent switch was added to reverse the motorinstead of shifting the brushes. In 1887 Mr. Henry removed toSan Diego, Cal., and constructed a number of electric roads,one of which contained 9 per cent grades, which were sur-mounted by his motors and trail cars with success. The sys-tem of underground feeders was first introduced on one ofthose roads. POWER STATION AT JAMAICA—1887 Mr. Short to give up his professorship and develop a streetrailway system. The conduit system was adopted and 5 milesof track were laid on Fifteenth Street in Denver, and operatedwith considerab
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