. Electric railway gazette . STATION AT FOOT OF SNAEFELL MOUNTAIN. VIEWON THE ASCENT, SHOWING TRACK CONSTRUCTIONAND GENERATING STA-TION. mounted on the car roof,and are pressed against theoverhead conductor by anarrangement of steel spiralsprings. The two col-lectors are cross-connectedinside the car. By thissystem of collection thecurrent is taken from theoverhead conductor with 210 ELECTRIC RAILWAY GAZETTE. Vol. XIII. No. 13. an insignificant amount of sparking, a reasonably smallwear of the conductor, and very little noise. Indeedthe sparking is only visible at night ; the wear hasbeen foun
. Electric railway gazette . STATION AT FOOT OF SNAEFELL MOUNTAIN. VIEWON THE ASCENT, SHOWING TRACK CONSTRUCTIONAND GENERATING STA-TION. mounted on the car roof,and are pressed against theoverhead conductor by anarrangement of steel spiralsprings. The two col-lectors are cross-connectedinside the car. By thissystem of collection thecurrent is taken from theoverhead conductor with 210 ELECTRIC RAILWAY GAZETTE. Vol. XIII. No. 13. an insignificant amount of sparking, a reasonably smallwear of the conductor, and very little noise. Indeedthe sparking is only visible at night ; the wear hasbeen found on the Douglas-Laxey line to be remark-ably small, a flat of only one five-hundreth of an inchhaving been worn during the two years of running; while. ONE OF THE CURVES ON THE ASCENT. as to noise, there is .nothing of which the running of thesecars reminds one more than a steam locomotive with steamslightly escaping from the safety valve. The cars are started without altering the relative con-nections of the motors; or, in other words, the series-parallel system is not in use. Beneath the car bodies,well exposed to the air, are a couple of slate-framed setsof iron-wire resistances; and a start is made in a verysimple manner, by throwing these into circuit, and grad-ually cutting out resistance as the speed rises. On theSnaefell line, the cutting out of resistance is left to thediscretion of the motorman, and the only piece of inter-locking is that which prevents the motorman from revers-ing his motors without previously switching them out ofthe circuit. The cars are 35 feet long, the seats having revers-ible backs. Each axle is driven by a 25-hp Manchestermotor, there being four for each car. The motors aresingle-reduction machines,
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