. The Street railway journal . INSPECTION PIT 422 [\ XY[1T. No. 14. iiiolors, and these for a time did very well, but it was foundthat with the increased traffic a heavier motor must be usedun these cars, and for the same reason as on the shorter. METHOD OF SUPPORTING PLOW ON PECKHAM SINGLE TRUCK cars. Owing to the short blocks and interruptions fromteam traffic in New York City, the number of stops madeper mile by a car is very large, and the strain on the motorequipments from starting the car so many times per mile iscorrespondingly great. On account of this fact it wasfinally decided to
. The Street railway journal . INSPECTION PIT 422 [\ XY[1T. No. 14. iiiolors, and these for a time did very well, but it was foundthat with the increased traffic a heavier motor must be usedun these cars, and for the same reason as on the shorter. METHOD OF SUPPORTING PLOW ON PECKHAM SINGLE TRUCK cars. Owing to the short blocks and interruptions fromteam traffic in New York City, the number of stops madeper mile by a car is very large, and the strain on the motorequipments from starting the car so many times per mile iscorrespondingly great. On account of this fact it wasfinally decided to use the G. E. 57 motor on the double-truck cars, and place the 1000 motors on the single-truckcars, which were changed from cable to electricity. The remodeling of the cable cars formerly run on Broad-way and other principal lines has been quite an tlie past winter the open cars of those lines, 210 innumber, were changed over and made ready for servicewith the opening of the road, as an underground soon as these were ready for operation 360 box cablecars were taken into the shop to be rebuilt for electric carsto go in service the coming winter. All these are expectedto be finished by about Nov. i. These cars had
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