. The Street railway journal . he road over whichthese motors run presents almost everyconceivable type of badness. Starting fromthe poorly paved quarter west of Green-wood cemetery, where the streets, original-ly paved with cobble stones, are brokenand rough so as to be impassable by wag-ons except upon a walk, and entering thisstrip of road from a cross street on a curveof not more that thirty feet radius, theyare run over this rough, dirty street forseveral miles to the outskirts of the city. inders are outside, 10 in diameter and 14stroke, with a wheel base of seven feet, andweigh in worki
. The Street railway journal . he road over whichthese motors run presents almost everyconceivable type of badness. Starting fromthe poorly paved quarter west of Green-wood cemetery, where the streets, original-ly paved with cobble stones, are brokenand rough so as to be impassable by wag-ons except upon a walk, and entering thisstrip of road from a cross street on a curveof not more that thirty feet radius, theyare run over this rough, dirty street forseveral miles to the outskirts of the city. inders are outside, 10 in diameter and 14stroke, with a wheel base of seven feet, andweigh in working order about eleven are equipped with all of the applian-ces of a regular locomotive in the way ofcylinder lubricators, injectors, etc., carrytheir own fuel and water, are readily stop-l^ed and started. On the road under consid-eration they are equipped with the Famesvacuum brake. The wheels are steeltired and connected by side rods like an or-dinary engine. The noise of escapingsteam is deadened by the use of muf-. flers upon the , cylinder cocks andsafety valves so that in ordiuary workingnothing is heard from this canse. Smokeis abated by the use of coke or anthracitecoal, so that little or none ai^pears. Itwill be seen that by the use of tlie shortwheel base, so little in excess of the ordin-ary street car, that ordinary- street curvesmay be passed with great facility, the en-gine rounding those of twenty-five feetradius with perfect ease. The speed is easily regulated, and de-pends more on the condition of the trackand the traffic of the street than upon theengine. The latter, however, with an or-dinary train, quickly attains a speed oftwelve or fifteen miles an hour, and thismay be maintained or any other speed downto that of a slow walk. The cost of opera-tion and maintenance is estimated at abouteight lbs. of coke or coalpermile, $ perday for oO, waste, tallow, repairs and in-cidentals, and the wages of an engineer andfireman at ruling prices. Ma
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