. The Street railway journal . ting preferableto the employment of a hot-water system. The car is mounted on Taylor trucks, and the fact thatthere are no dropping platform timbers permitted the trucksto be placed as near the end of the car as the clearance ofthe steps would allow. They are placed with their centers22 ft. 53^ ins. apart. Four G. motors are mounted on July 21, 1906.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 95 the trucks and General Electric type-M control, equipped fordouble end operation, is employed. Although multiple-unitoperation is not being carried out at the present time, pro-visio
. The Street railway journal . ting preferableto the employment of a hot-water system. The car is mounted on Taylor trucks, and the fact thatthere are no dropping platform timbers permitted the trucksto be placed as near the end of the car as the clearance ofthe steps would allow. They are placed with their centers22 ft. 53^ ins. apart. Four G. motors are mounted on July 21, 1906.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 95 the trucks and General Electric type-M control, equipped fordouble end operation, is employed. Although multiple-unitoperation is not being carried out at the present time, pro-vision is being made for this in the future by placing controlcable receptacles on the cars. The chief reason for the in-stallation of the type-M system was the elimination of theheavy maintenance expenses of the direct controller and theavoidance of flashing and burning on the front platform. CAR LIGHTNING PROTECTION The repairs to direct controllers have been excessive, duelargely to the burn-outs from lightning, which is usually. FIG. 10.—INTERIOR OF COMPLETED CAR severe in this region. Lightning storms are not only of fre-quent occurrence but the discharges seem to consist of agreater volume of current than is usually encountered. Specialmeans have been provided on the new cars to prevent light-ning entering the car. A choke coil of forty-six turns isplaced in the main circuit and four arresters are used in con-nection with it. Two of them placed in multiple are con- storms, and to pull the trolley down if a stop of any lengthis made during a storm. THE DESPATCHING SYSTEMThe interior of the despatchers office, which is located overthe veranda of the office building at Webb City, is shown inFig. 12. The board is laid off with sidings and branch lines tocorrespond with those on the tracks of the system. Holesare drilled in at frequent intervals for the insertion of plugsbearing car numbers. Plugs for trains going west are in-serted in the top holes, while those headed in the opp
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