. Electric railway journal . ghting and four special type 8 tiple-unit trains and construction of largest American cars motors. The speed on level track is 25 | yet produced (52 ft. over-all length). The Cambria & Indiana Railway, Colver, Pa., oper- j The traction batteries of this company are rated as ates a combination baggage and passenger car, 35 ft. § B follows: | in. OVer all, on a 12-mile three-leg switchback line be- ^TTh aT^/a 8 HCe\ 1 o H \ i? ] i tween Rexis and Colver. This line has a steady rise of m 1 Rated capacity, amp-hr. 150 225 300 375 450 4 3 5 ft. in
. Electric railway journal . ghting and four special type 8 tiple-unit trains and construction of largest American cars motors. The speed on level track is 25 | yet produced (52 ft. over-all length). The Cambria & Indiana Railway, Colver, Pa., oper- j The traction batteries of this company are rated as ates a combination baggage and passenger car, 35 ft. § B follows: | in. OVer all, on a 12-mile three-leg switchback line be- ^TTh aT^/a 8 HCe\ 1 o H \ i? ] i tween Rexis and Colver. This line has a steady rise of m 1 Rated capacity, amp-hr. 150 225 300 375 450 4 3 5 ft. in 10 miles and then of 400 ft. in the next 2 I = Normal actual output, seven- .. _ .. i r r hour charge, amp-hr 168 252 336 420 504 miles. On Z miles a constant grade of j per cent pre- m = Maximum output on overcharge, -i r™ i .1 l . • l /~\ amp-hr 190 285 380 475 570 vails. 1 he car makes three round trips a day. <Jn an g I RceH ™^°n™.180 270 360 450 540 inspection trip when there was 2 in. of snow on the |. Typical Storage Battery Cars for City and Light Interurban Service As to grades, the Burlingame (Cal) Electric Rail-way has used one single-truck car, 27 ft. 6 in. over all,since the spring of 19 I 3 on a suburban run about 7000ft. long. This short run, however, has a grade of cent for 250 ft., followed by somewhat shorterlengths of per cent and per cent and then by250 ft. of per cent grade. The calculated speedof this car is 23 on the level and 5 on themaximum grade mentioned. This extraordinary serviceis handled by four 1 0-hp motors and 1 19 A-10-H trac-tion cells. Five cells of the same type are used for light-ing. The battery equipment is boosted for three hoursand forty-eight minutes during the day in addition to theusual seven-hour night charge. The railway buys energyfrom the local lighting company at 2/2 cents per the first 5400 kw-hr. taken in a month and 1/?cents for the second 5400 kw-hr. Two cars with 1
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