. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . to whether the block ahead isclear or danger. Should the engineerfor any cause fail to heed the warning ifblock is danger, a set of contact barswill cause the closing of the throttle andthe setting of the brakes automatically, atthe same time operating the whistle. The electric current for operating the the Whetstone Coal Company and has atotal capacity of XOO tons. The cars are pulled up an incline by asteel cable wound on a drum which isdriven by an electric motor. An in-genious method is u
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . to whether the block ahead isclear or danger. Should the engineerfor any cause fail to heed the warning ifblock is danger, a set of contact barswill cause the closing of the throttle andthe setting of the brakes automatically, atthe same time operating the whistle. The electric current for operating the the Whetstone Coal Company and has atotal capacity of XOO tons. The cars are pulled up an incline by asteel cable wound on a drum which isdriven by an electric motor. An in-genious method is used for automaticallyunhooking the cars from the cable whenthey reach the top the car continuingalong the level track to the proper binwhere the load is dumped. Under or-dinary conditions 150 to 200 cars arehoisted per day at a cost of about .019cents per ton of coal. Electricity in Arabia I lie of Oman at Muskat, installed recently at his palace anelectrical plant to be used for lighting andother purposes. This is reported to be thefirst electrical installation in that GAS ELECTRIC MOTOR CAR FOR Till-: MIDLAND VALLEY RAILROAD. which we have described fully in a pre-vious issue. The method of control issimple, substantial and similar to that ofany electric trolley car. The gas-electriccar, not only reduces the cost of operationfor branch lines but it builds up theselines, since traveling is not only cleanerbut more convenient. An installation ofthe gas-electric car may prevent theparalleling of the steam load by a trolleyroad and the retaining of local travel. Automatic Controlling Device forTrains. We are all acquainted with the Prenticewireless system of control for steamtrains which has been in test service forseveral months over a section of trackon the Canadian Pacific and on the Lon-don and Southwestern Railways. cab signals and for operating the throttle,etc., is obtained from an axle-drivendynamo. A battery is provided to workin connection w
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