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Identifier: electrictraction00burc (find matches)
Title: Electric traction for railway trains; a book for students, electrical and mechanical engineers, superintendents of motive power and others ..
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Burch, Edward P. (Edward Parris), 1870-1945
Subjects: Railroads
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill Book Company
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for its New York-Lo:Island, suburban service; and in 1911 to Newark, New Jersey. Tmotor-car train requires greater energy than the locomotive becauof the continuity of service, the higher acceleration, and the freque-iustops. Motor-car train equipment already purchased consists of about 225 steer motorcars, for passenger service. Pennsylvania standard trucks are used with side-extendedbolster springs and 8.5-foot wheel bases. Power equipment per motor car consists oftwo Westinghouse 215-h.p., direct-current motors. Forced draft is used to cool andto keep out the dust and grit. The entire axle is enclosed to keep the dust out ofbearings. The motor equipment was described under Ventilation of Motors. SeeFigure 42, page 184. Each car is a motor car and weighs 53 tons. MOTOR-CAR TRAINS 251 Long Island Railroad, a subsidiary company, operates 138 steel 38- to41-ton passenger motor cars, with two 200-h.p. motors per car, forsuburban service west of Brooklyn to distant points on Long Island.
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h Fig. 70.—Long Island Railroad Motor-car Train. Steel Coaches - New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad purchased, in 1909, )_ notor cars and 6 trail coaches for its local service between New York J Gy and Stamford, Connecticut, 34 miles. The motor cars are designed pull 2 trail cars. Steel cars, built by the Standard Steel Car Company,

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