. The Street railway journal . i I • I I VE SI AN IIKIIxiK t RoSSlNC ILLINOIS RIVERA! PEORIA. FIG. 27.—50-TON LOCOMOTIVE EQUIPPED WITH FOUR GE A-609 MOTORS ameter. Each car is provided with aElectric straight air brake equipment. standard General A. C. LOCOMOTIVEThe a. c. locomotive already referred to in the earlier partof this article will be used for hauling coal and-miscellaneousfreight over both the a. c. and d. c. sections of the system,it being equipped with a. c. motors and a. c. and d. c. con-trol. speed motors designed especially for locomotive service,and on their one-hour rating ha
. The Street railway journal . i I • I I VE SI AN IIKIIxiK t RoSSlNC ILLINOIS RIVERA! PEORIA. FIG. 27.—50-TON LOCOMOTIVE EQUIPPED WITH FOUR GE A-609 MOTORS ameter. Each car is provided with aElectric straight air brake equipment. standard General A. C. LOCOMOTIVEThe a. c. locomotive already referred to in the earlier partof this article will be used for hauling coal and-miscellaneousfreight over both the a. c. and d. c. sections of the system,it being equipped with a. c. motors and a. c. and d. c. con-trol. speed motors designed especially for locomotive service,and on their one-hour rating have a capacity of 150 hp the full load rating of the motors, 600 hp, the locomotivedevelops a tractive effort of approximately 15,000 lbs., whichis to say it will be capable of hauling a trailing load of 500tons on a 1 per cent grade at a speed of 15 mph. On alevel tangent track it will handle the same load at 27 mph. The current collectors for both a. c. and d. c. are of theordinary trolley wheel type, but the trolley base is specially July 6, 1907.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. insu
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