. Street and electric railways, 1902 .. . INTERURBAN CAR ON CLEVELAND, ELYRIA AND WESTERN LONG TYPE OF OPEN CAR, IN USE AT BUFFALO, NEW YORK. CARS AND MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT. 203 the circuits are run in electro-bestos conduits. Thesystem has been constructed with the idea of securingabsolute and instantaneous control, with the minimumliabilitj^ to collision, fire, or other casualty. The vitalimportance of the car controllers justifies the immenseamount of money and energy which has been expendedin devising the modern systems. Brief reference tolarger motors will be made in the chapt
. Street and electric railways, 1902 .. . INTERURBAN CAR ON CLEVELAND, ELYRIA AND WESTERN LONG TYPE OF OPEN CAR, IN USE AT BUFFALO, NEW YORK. CARS AND MISCELLANEOUS EQUIPMENT. 203 the circuits are run in electro-bestos conduits. Thesystem has been constructed with the idea of securingabsolute and instantaneous control, with the minimumliabilitj^ to collision, fire, or other casualty. The vitalimportance of the car controllers justifies the immenseamount of money and energy which has been expendedin devising the modern systems. Brief reference tolarger motors will be made in the chapter on interurbanrailway equipment. V. THE OVERHEAD TROLLEY CONTACT. The devices for conducting the current from over-head wires into the cars are details which could not atany stage of the development be considered independ-ently, but had to be developed in relation to the meth-ods of suspending overhead wires and of employing theoverhead frogs and switches along which the contactingdevice has to travel. Some of the earlier trolley devicestraveled along the top of the wire, but this was soonfou
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