. The street railway review . g was found to be in perfect working opening ceremonies were attended by the mayor,city council and invited guests. Till; foundry and machine department of the Harris-burg car w orks has been purchased by capitalists of thatcity, and the works will resume operation shortly. rapidly increasing. The general ofhces are in commo-dious quarters in the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago. This nut lock, which has stood the most severe tests onnearly every railroatl in the country, is giving equal Dlkin(; the sixty years in which horse cars have beenin operation in th
. The street railway review . g was found to be in perfect working opening ceremonies were attended by the mayor,city council and invited guests. Till; foundry and machine department of the Harris-burg car w orks has been purchased by capitalists of thatcity, and the works will resume operation shortly. rapidly increasing. The general ofhces are in commo-dious quarters in the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago. This nut lock, which has stood the most severe tests onnearly every railroatl in the country, is giving equal Dlkin(; the sixty years in which horse cars have beenin operation in this country the capital invested amountedto $58,000,000. The electric system has been in oper-ation but five years and $50,000,000 are already investedin electric railways. 94 ^Sigt%toi^§^^»2- The Westinghouse Slow Speed Motor. THE Westinghouse Company has recently broughtout a new four pole, slow speed railway motorwhich will be of interest to our readers. In formC3-lindrical it gives the shortest possible magnetic current,. and achieves the greatest possible strength with a compara-tively small expenditure of metal. The width of the motoris such that it >. in be used on a gauge of only 3 feet 6 motor is so designed that it can becompletelv shutin without heating, thusmost effectually boxing and protectingit against rain and snow, or water drip-ping from the car floor. Fig. i showsthe motor thus encased. The cast ironframe which carries the motor is notunlike that already adopted by this and armature in perfect alignment. The gearing is close-ly mounted to the frame, thus preventing buckling. It isboxed as shown in fig. 6. Eas} access to the fields and armature is attained b}the metiiod of hinging the field castings as shown in*!&• 3- From the interior of the cylindrical shellthe poles protrude radially and over them are slippedthe field coils protected and held in position by abrass cap. Any field maj- easily be removed with-out disturbing the others. The ar
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