. The Street railway journal . FIG. 6.—METHOD OF CARRYING CABLES AROUND CORNER is collected by an under-running trolley, which is in con-tact with a T rail, used as a conductor. This rail is em-bedded in asphalt between the track rails, and its surfaceis about 2 ins. below the asphalt paving. An ordinarycar motor of the G. type, with type K-2 controller,is employed, and this is geared to the main axle, as in carpractice. The resistance coils are in three sections, andboxed in directly under the main axle. The fuse box andswitch are placed near the operator. Each axle has fourwheels, tho
. The Street railway journal . FIG. 6.—METHOD OF CARRYING CABLES AROUND CORNER is collected by an under-running trolley, which is in con-tact with a T rail, used as a conductor. This rail is em-bedded in asphalt between the track rails, and its surfaceis about 2 ins. below the asphalt paving. An ordinarycar motor of the G. type, with type K-2 controller,is employed, and this is geared to the main axle, as in carpractice. The resistance coils are in three sections, andboxed in directly under the main axle. The fuse box andswitch are placed near the operator. Each axle has fourwheels, those on the motor side of the table being 30 diameter, of special pattern undished, while the wheels. FIG. 7.—ELECTRIC TRANSFER TABLE—EIGHTH AND DAUPHIN STREETS steel about 3 ft. in length and 4 ins. in width placed abovethe wire with the ends turned up, and so arranged thatwhen the trolley wheel approaches the crossing the flangesof the wheel come in contact with the curved plate, freeingthe groove from the wire and relieving the latter from theblow that is otherwise dealt at the rigid point. REPAIR SHOPS In the main repair shop, which is at the corner of Eighthand Dauphin Streets, there is a home-made electric trans-fer table, Fig. 7, which eliminates almost all the hand laborrequired for shifting cars. This table is of sufficient lengthto accommodate the longest and heaviest cars, and plies on the opposite side of the table are 15 ins. in outside wheels of each set are plain, without flangesand their axles are coupled to the driving axle by a pe-culiar clutch coupling, which allows them to turn inde-pendent of the driving axle. Roller bearings are providedfor each
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