. The Street railway journal . thisarrangement has been so successful that the sparking at thecommutator is practically nil over a very wide range of type of motor can also be arranged for running with con-tinuous current if necessary. The cars have been tested on the steepest grade (i in 25), and they started with a gross load of50 tons without any trouble whatever. The complete electrical equipment for this railway, whichwas opened for regular service early this year, was designedand supplied by the Siemens-Schuckert Company. It is re-ported that this company is also completing fo
. The Street railway journal . thisarrangement has been so successful that the sparking at thecommutator is practically nil over a very wide range of type of motor can also be arranged for running with con-tinuous current if necessary. The cars have been tested on the steepest grade (i in 25), and they started with a gross load of50 tons without any trouble whatever. The complete electrical equipment for this railway, whichwas opened for regular service early this year, was designedand supplied by the Siemens-Schuckert Company. It is re-ported that this company is also completing for the SwedishState Railways a single-phase locomotive which is capable ofworking with 20,000 volts taken direct from the trolley are also at work in conjunction with the AllgemeineElektricitiits Gesellschaft on the Hamburg-Altona single-phaseline. It is interesting to learn that single-phase railway motorsof the type above described are being made by Siemens Bros. &Company, Ltd., at their Stafford Works, MOTOR CAR AND TRAILERS STOPPING AT A STATION 594 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXV. No. 13. WELDED VS. FISHED AND BONDED RAIL-JOINTS BY WILLIAM H. COLE The use of thermit in the welding of rail ends, especially instreet railways, has become so well known within the past sixmonths that the management of nearly all the systems in opera-tion in the United States know more or less what it is and itsadvantages. It isobvious that if it is possible to join the railends permanently together so that they become continuous,and the joint has been practically eliminated, and permanentlyso, one of the worst, most expensive and annoying troublesincident to track construction and its maintenance has beenovercome. There can be no doubt that this can be done when thermithas been applied in rail-welding. The rail ends are melted to-gether at their ends and become one solid mass, and the jointno longer exists. It has also been demonstrated in making thisweld that the quality o
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