. The Street railway journal . (pre-sumably the Sprague roads at Richmond), I send someheretofore unpublished views of historical interest, show-ing my personal efforts in that direction. Views 1 and 2 were taken from the East Fifth Streetroad in Kansas City in the Fall of 1886. No. 3 representsone of the trains on the San Diego and Old Town road,in California, taken in the Summer of 1887. No. 4 repre-sents a view on the Fourth Street road in San Diego, whichwas constructed in 1887. On the latter road, which wasabout five miles long, we carried as high as 150 passen-gers up a 9 per cent grade
. The Street railway journal . (pre-sumably the Sprague roads at Richmond), I send someheretofore unpublished views of historical interest, show-ing my personal efforts in that direction. Views 1 and 2 were taken from the East Fifth Streetroad in Kansas City in the Fall of 1886. No. 3 representsone of the trains on the San Diego and Old Town road,in California, taken in the Summer of 1887. No. 4 repre-sents a view on the Fourth Street road in San Diego, whichwas constructed in 1887. On the latter road, which wasabout five miles long, we carried as high as 150 passen-gers up a 9 per cent grade with a single motor. On theKansas City road we used the double overhead the Old Town road in San Diego we used undergroundfeeders with single overhead wires. All of those roadswere supplied from compound wound dynamos. The mo-tor fields were wound with a multiplicity of parallel motors resistance was varied with a switch which with the trolley wire, which in some cases was 15 ft. tothe side of the FIG. 2.—EARLY ROAD IN KANSAS CITY The details of the line construction and motors wereworked out and tested by the writer during the years 1884
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