. The Street railway journal . control, and is fitted withboth straight and automatic airbrakes. The leads, motor wiring andall electrical circuits, with the excep-tion of the low-voltage leads fromthe storage battery used in connec-tion with the turret control, are inoak molding with four conduits, cov-ered with a capping to correspond,and the turns are all square low-voltage circuits from thebattery are placed in iron pipes. The body of the car was built atthe works of the J. G. Brill Company,and it is mounted on special Brillhigh-speed No. 27-E-3 trucks. Thetrucks each have a whee
. The Street railway journal . control, and is fitted withboth straight and automatic airbrakes. The leads, motor wiring andall electrical circuits, with the excep-tion of the low-voltage leads fromthe storage battery used in connec-tion with the turret control, are inoak molding with four conduits, cov-ered with a capping to correspond,and the turns are all square low-voltage circuits from thebattery are placed in iron pipes. The body of the car was built atthe works of the J. G. Brill Company,and it is mounted on special Brillhigh-speed No. 27-E-3 trucks. Thetrucks each have a wheel base of 6 ins. The wheels are steel-tired and 36 ins. in diametfr, andthe axles are 6 ins. in diameter. The weight of body and truckswithout motors is 51,060 lbs. The car has been in regularoperation for about one year, and has frequently been run atspeeds as high as 1 mile in 58 seconds. -+♦+ The Springfield, Troy & Piqua Traction Company, of Spring-field, Ohio, is building in its own shops five standard freight. V / t 0 IIhBBHM iu 111 IS! Mil VIEW UNDER UTICA & MOHAWK EXPRESS CAR, SHOWING MUL-TIPLE-UNIT CONTROL AND STRAIGHT AND AUTOMATICAIR-BRAKE APPARATUS INTERIOR OF EXPRESS CAR, UTICA & MOHAWKVALLEY RAILWAY forms a motormans compartment at each end. As will benoticed from the illustrations, there are two double slidingdoors on each side of the car. and at the diagonally oppositecorners there are smaller doors which swing outwardly, theplatforms at these corners being cut away sharply along the cars. Each car is 34 ft. long, has a capacity of 40,000 lbs. andwill be hauled as a trailer by the companys regular expresscars. The company is working up a very large freight busi-ness and is interlining with a number of the electric inter-urban railwavs in Western Ohio. February 3, 1906.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 215 A NEW SLEET CUTTER A new and very simply designed detachable sleet cutter hasjust been added to the saving devices made by the BayonetTrolley Harp Company, of S
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