. The Street railway journal . HE PETALUMA & SANTA ROSA RAILWAY w ith roller-canvas screens are used, and all cars have standardpilots. A half-hour passenger service is operated at present,the cars being despatched by telephone with duplicate trainorders. The passenger rate charged is 2 cents a mile, with aminimum of 5 cents. The companys freight service is handled by an equipmentconsisting of fifty flat and ten box cars, three motor freightcars and one baggage express car. Each of the motor freightcars is equipped with four General Electric No. 70 motors, andconsists of a flat car with cab in
. The Street railway journal . HE PETALUMA & SANTA ROSA RAILWAY w ith roller-canvas screens are used, and all cars have standardpilots. A half-hour passenger service is operated at present,the cars being despatched by telephone with duplicate trainorders. The passenger rate charged is 2 cents a mile, with aminimum of 5 cents. The companys freight service is handled by an equipmentconsisting of fifty flat and ten box cars, three motor freightcars and one baggage express car. Each of the motor freightcars is equipped with four General Electric No. 70 motors, andconsists of a flat car with cab in the center. At each end ofthe cab is mounted a swinging jib crane, by the aid of whichthe car may be quickly loaded and unloaded. This type of caris used for construction work, and in regular freight servicehauls a train of box cars or flats. y\t Petaluma the railway company controls a valuable waterfront property, as before stated. Soon after the railroad ser-vice was begun the freight traffic increased to such an extent. It has become standard practice in railwaymotor work to place the armature in circuitnearer the trolley side of the line, and thefields nearest the ground side. The practicehas become so universal that no question Lraised concerning it, and the reason forso connecting the motors has probably not occurred to many. It is often explained as being indirectly due to the fact thatreversal of current to obtain reversal of rotation of the motorshould occur in the armature rather than in the field. To re-tain the reversal in the armature, were it connected in the cir-cuit last, would necessitate the return of all of No. 2 motorleads to the controller, where now one of them is carried directto the shell of the motor. This would require more com-plicated controller wiring, which is always to be avoided as faras possible. The more important reason for the present method of con-nection, however, becomes clear when inquiry is made into thebehavior of the motor when a brus
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