. Electrical world. electric rail-roading on a track of this description was no easy matter. It was,however, but typical of many othtr difficulties besetting the was on a track of this kind, along a section of the line of theEast Cleveland Street Railway Company, that the car in questionwas first operated. The route began on what was then known asGarden Street, two blocks west of Wilson Avenue. From GardenStreet it turned into New- Street, and then into Quincy Street, andwas at first about a mile in length, but was soon after extendedacross the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad track
. Electrical world. electric rail-roading on a track of this description was no easy matter. It was,however, but typical of many othtr difficulties besetting the was on a track of this kind, along a section of the line of theEast Cleveland Street Railway Company, that the car in questionwas first operated. The route began on what was then known asGarden Street, two blocks west of Wilson Avenue. From GardenStreet it turned into New- Street, and then into Quincy Street, andwas at first about a mile in length, but was soon after extendedacross the Cleveland & Pittsburg Railroad tracks and thence alongQuincy Street to Lincoln Avenue. The conduit was of wood, ex-cepting about 100 ft. at the crossing of Wilson Avenue, which wasof iron. Rectangular cast-iron yokes were set on the ties and outsideof the yokes were two-inch planks, set on edge to form the sides ofthe conduit, while similar planks formed the top. with a slot havingan original width of three-quarters of an inch. Inside the conduit. FIRST ELECTRIC. > C.\R, CLEVELAND, OHIO. were the conductors, formed of channel bars about four inches apartand supported on insulators projecting from the wooden side wallsof the conduit and entering the groove in the rear of the channel this crude line of construction there were worked out severalcurves, also the branches for a turnout and for one spur track and—most difficult of all—a railway crossing through the Cleveland &Pittsburg tracks. The current for the road was supplied at first froma Brush arc light machine. No. 7, driven by a 2S-hp engine in thecar barns at Euclid Avenue, a quarter of a mile away, and to one oldgentleman, a director of the road, it was a constant source of wonderthat, after throwing the switch, it took such a short time for thecurrent to come from the car barns to the road. The first car wasequipped with another Brush arc light dynamo. No. 6. It was sus-pended directly underneath the center of the car body, the shaft e
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