. The Street railway journal . ,152 per car mile pgj- (Jay 1,066 Cost per car mile Our cars are eighteen and sixteen feet in length, aboutequally divided. The road is not level, having a verylarge number of long grades, some of them being as highas twelve per cent. The power plant is of 1200 h. p. ca-pacity, equipped with simple Corliss engines and watertube boilers. The quantity of oil used per month as shown by astatement covering six months, is gals, of cylinder oil,and 230 gals, of engine oil. 290 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XII. No. 5. A Novel Method of Showing Contro
. The Street railway journal . ,152 per car mile pgj- (Jay 1,066 Cost per car mile Our cars are eighteen and sixteen feet in length, aboutequally divided. The road is not level, having a verylarge number of long grades, some of them being as highas twelve per cent. The power plant is of 1200 h. p. ca-pacity, equipped with simple Corliss engines and watertube boilers. The quantity of oil used per month as shown by astatement covering six months, is gals, of cylinder oil,and 230 gals, of engine oil. 290 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XII. No. 5. A Novel Method of Showing Controller Diagram. Wheel Grinding Machine. In the Milwaukee Elcct) ic Raikvay Ihillctin of Marchappears a unique and excellent form of diagram showingthe connections of the K2 controller. Mr. W^nnan and hisassistants have taken the greatest pains to train and in-struct their motornien in every possible way which wouldserve to increase their efficiency and general the matter of controllers, the right understanding of. I I ^1 ist Point. Current passes through three panels of resistance, through Armature No. I, Field No. i, thence through Armature No. 2, and Field No. 2 to the ground. This is called Running Motors in Point. Same as point No. i, except that one-third of the is cut out as shown by the dotted Point. Same as point No. i, except that two-thirds of the resistance is cut out. 4th Point. Same as Point No. i, except that all of the resistance is cut out. 5th Point. All resistance remains cut out and the fields are weakened by the use of a shunt coil, making this a safe and economical point to run Point. Current passes through all three points of resistance, and then into Armatures No. i and 2 simuUaneouslv, from them directly into the Fields No. I and 2, thence to the ground. This is called running Motors in Point. Same as point No. 6, excepting that one-third of resistance is cut out as shown by dotted
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