. The Street railway journal . ively easy riding of the uniformly sized larger wheelsand the high speed. The cars are equipped with two mo-tors each, Westinghouse 38 B and General Electric 57sbeing used, geared up to 31 miles per hour at 500 volts;they get, however, about 600 volts. The weight of- eachcar is kept down to about 18 tons, so that two motors canhandle the work easily. Sufficient maximum-tractioneffect is obtained by overhanging the motor at one end ofthe truck, instead of mounting it between the wheels. The cars are fitted with Wagenhals inclosed archeadlights. These headlights ar
. The Street railway journal . ively easy riding of the uniformly sized larger wheelsand the high speed. The cars are equipped with two mo-tors each, Westinghouse 38 B and General Electric 57sbeing used, geared up to 31 miles per hour at 500 volts;they get, however, about 600 volts. The weight of- eachcar is kept down to about 18 tons, so that two motors canhandle the work easily. Sufficient maximum-tractioneffect is obtained by overhanging the motor at one end ofthe truck, instead of mounting it between the wheels. The cars are fitted with Wagenhals inclosed archeadlights. These headlights are adjusted for 6^amps., and throw an astonishingly brilliant search-light beam along the track in the dark countrydistricts. Their use is found to be of great benefitin reducing the number of cattle killed at night, thebrilliant beams of light serving not only to show upcattle on the track, but to frighten them away. Whilewithout the arc headlights more cattle were killedduring the evening than during the day time, this condi-. NTERIOR OF POWER STATION, SHOWING 1200-HP UNIT tion is now reversed. The head-lights do not seem tofrighten horses, as might be expected. The head-lightsare wired in the motor circuits, thus obtaining their cur-rent through the circuit breakers, with which every car isprovided. To avoid blinding the motorman of an ap-proaching car, the lights are turned off by tripping the cir-cuit breaker and pulling out the plug which supplies cur-rent to the light. In this way arcing at the plug is are drawn in the front doors of the cars to darkenthe platform and further enatle the motorman to see aheadon the track. The work on the new power plant was begun in Septem-ber last, previous to which time the road was operated bytwo direct-current plants, the long feeds being carried bymeans of boosters. The polyphase equipment was firstput in service April 25. The direct-current apparatus was August 4, 1900.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 691 very heavily loade
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