. The railroad and engineering journal . is made by a trolley carried on a long iron rod ontop of the car, and the connection can be made or broken by aslight movement of the conductors or drivers hand. The carsrun very smoothly and well, and do not seem to experience anydifficulty in climbing the steepest grades. The power-house, from which power is supplied to the differ-ent lines, is very completely fitted up. There are three Arming-ton & Sims engines of 125 H. P. each, which are kept constantlyin service, and which run six No. 20 Edison dynamos, havinga total power of 600 ampires. A very t
. The railroad and engineering journal . is made by a trolley carried on a long iron rod ontop of the car, and the connection can be made or broken by aslight movement of the conductors or drivers hand. The carsrun very smoothly and well, and do not seem to experience anydifficulty in climbing the steepest grades. The power-house, from which power is supplied to the differ-ent lines, is very completely fitted up. There are three Arming-ton & Sims engines of 125 H. P. each, which are kept constantlyin service, and which run six No. 20 Edison dynamos, havinga total power of 600 ampires. A very trying feature in the supply .of fuel, being in the immediate neighborhood of one ofthe coal mines with which the region around Scranton electric road may be considered in every way a success,and the accidents and delays are fewer in number than on anordinary horse railroad. The Sprague Electric Hoist. The adoption of electric power in railroad shops and othermanufacturing establishments is rapidly increasing, and nearly. work of supplying power is the constant variation in the forceexpended. The indicators show that this may changejabruptlyfrom 10 to as high as 540 ampures, and that the changes areincessant. Steam is supplied to the engines by five tubular every day we hear of some new application of this kind for milland shop purposes. A very short time ago electric motors werea novelty, but now they have been adopted by some of the leading railroads of Ihe country for operating transfer-tables, turn- 53 0 THE RAILROAD AND [November, 1889. tables, traveling cranes, and other machinery where a portable and compact power is required. The accompanying illustrations show the motor for an electrichoist which has recently been built by the Sprague Electric Rail-way Motor Company of New York, for railroad shops, mills,and other places where a simple and portable hoist is desiredand where a constant potential electric current is machine was built at the Edi
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