. The street railway review . rating the kind of track construction on this roadthe writer quotes from a report of the superintendentdated September 10, 1888. The trailers were off thetrack twenty times yesterday, and, of course, the sprocketis all that keeps the motors on. The engravings. 8, 9 and 10, from photographs madewhile the road was in operation, represent a few of thedrastic doses which pioneers were wont to meekh. oreven eagerly accept. That quite heavy work was done may be gatheredfrom the following quotations contained in informalreports of the superintendent: Finding a core con-t
. The street railway review . rating the kind of track construction on this roadthe writer quotes from a report of the superintendentdated September 10, 1888. The trailers were off thetrack twenty times yesterday, and, of course, the sprocketis all that keeps the motors on. The engravings. 8, 9 and 10, from photographs madewhile the road was in operation, represent a few of thedrastic doses which pioneers were wont to meekh. oreven eagerly accept. That quite heavy work was done may be gatheredfrom the following quotations contained in informalreports of the superintendent: Finding a core con-tact in No. 3 armature when she was down the roadwith a car, we took out No. 5 motor and pulled back acar load of people and No. 3 motor in tow. The wholetrain (17 tons) ascended the 12^ per cent grade with the usual speed and neither the motor or generatorsseemed to mind it. Im not afraid to tackle any of thehills after thai. On one occasion a motorman neglected to let downthe sprocket wheel while descending the per cent. FIGURE 7. gradient. The result is described by the superintendentas follows, under date August 15. 1888: The motorand car, with all the wheels locked, slid to the bottom(over one-third of a mile) on a perfectly dry rail. Fig-ure II, showing motor and car on this grade, will givethe beholder a quite vivid idea of that interestingperformance. Occasionally loads of over eighty persons were car-ried, when the motor would also be crowded to the greatinconvenience of the long-suffering motormen, who notinfrequently showed a devotion to their work and astoical indifference to personal comfort, which one canonly recall with grateful admiration, especially when itis considered for how small a pittance such work was,and is, usually done, unrelieved by the hope of extrareward which naturally stimulates the pioneer. In the meantime Thomas A. Noble had been in nego-tiation with the Daft Electric Company for motors to runon a proposed suburban road of about three miles
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