Identifier: streetrailwayrev10amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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IEW. (Vol. X, No. lo. NEW CARS FOR ALBANY & HUDSON RAIL-WAY & POWER CO. The accompanying illustrations show two styles of cars recentlybuilt by the Wason Manufacturing Co., of Springfield, Mass., forthe .\lbany & Hudson Railway & Power Co., which has a 40-milc third-rail line connecting Albany and Hudson, N. Y. Thecars have overhead trolleys, as well as shoes for taking currentfrom the third rail, as they operate over the local street railway the ceiling at intervals of about 4 ft. The buffers are curvedangle bars, and are braced by the wooden floor beams and by twosteel channels extending in a flaring direction and bolted to theplatform timbers. The summer cars are 53 ft. 6 in. long over the buffers and 52ft. over the vestibules; the body proper is 43 ft. long, 8 ft. 6 in.wide, and 9 ft. 2 in. from the bottom of the sill to the top of theroof. The weight of the car body is 27,763 lb.; trucks, 15,900 lb.;electrical equipment, 12,600 lb.; air brake equipment, 1,465 lb.;
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FIG. l-SUMMER CAR FOR ALBANY & HITDSON WASON M.-VNUFACTURINO CO. tracks in Albany and Hudson. There are 10 summer cars, Fig. i,and 8 winter cars, Fig. 2; of the winter cars 5 are full passengerand 3 combined passenger and baggage cars. The trucks are theBrill No. 27 extra heavy, the type developed by the J. G. BrillCo. for operation over T rails at high speed, while also suitablefor the grooved rails in cities. The summer cars each have fourG. E. 57 motors, 50 h. p. each, and K-14 controllers; the wintercars have four G. E. 51 motors, 75 h. p. each, and L-4 controllers..•\11 cars have Christensen air brakes, with motor compressors, thecompressors being housed in under the floor near the middle of the total, 57.728 lb. This is heavier than the standard passengercoach of the Boston & Albany R. R., which weighs 52,000 lb. Thewindow sashes are in two parts, and drop into the walls of thecar flush with the coping. The vestibules have low side doorsand curtains; the windows are sh

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