. The Street railway journal . ed record would be very much easier toread in the office. William J. Kelly. The New Orleans Railways Companv publishes and dis-tributes gratis an excellent tourists guide to New folder contains illustrations and descriptions of the mostprominent and quaint features of the Crescent City and vicinityand how to get there via trolley, a complete map, car routesand schedules, list of hotels, theaters, railroad depots, etc. i78 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIII. No. 5. SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CAR FOR BLOOMINGTON & NORMAL RAILWAY SINGLE-PHASE RAILWAY TRANSMISSION
. The Street railway journal . ed record would be very much easier toread in the office. William J. Kelly. The New Orleans Railways Companv publishes and dis-tributes gratis an excellent tourists guide to New folder contains illustrations and descriptions of the mostprominent and quaint features of the Crescent City and vicinityand how to get there via trolley, a complete map, car routesand schedules, list of hotels, theaters, railroad depots, etc. i78 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXIII. No. 5. SEMI-CONVERTIBLE CAR FOR BLOOMINGTON & NORMAL RAILWAY SINGLE-PHASE RAILWAY TRANSMISSION SYSTEM The accompanying illustration shows a new semi-convertiblecar of Brill type, built by the American Car Company, of , for the Bloomington & Normal Railway, Electric &Heating Company, Bloomington, 111. Normal and Bloomingtonare connected indirectly by two steam lines, while the electricrailway shortens the distance considerably. The cities areabout 5 miles apart, and there is much travel between The Oerlikon Company (Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon), ofOerlikon, near Zurich, Switzerland, has announced the detailsof its new high-tension transmission system for single-phaseelectric railways. The company states that it has made noattempt to solve the single-phase traction problem as a whole,but has endeavored to produce an efficient and reliable systemcovering the transmission, collection and return of current onany type of single-phase railway. The principal feature of this system is the current collector,which is a curved rod of conducting material, having its convexface in contact with the power wire. This bow may be moved
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