Identifier: streetrailwayjo301907newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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(Vol. XXX. No. 17. FIFTEEN CYCLE, SEVENTY-TWO TON ELECTRIC LOCO-MOTIVE AT ATLANTIC CITY. One of the most interesting exhibits at the Atlantic City-convention of the American Street and Interurban RailwayAssociation was the 15-cycle, single-phase electric locomo-tive built by the Westinghouse Electric & ManufacturingCompany and shown on the switch on Virginia Avenue,near the Board Walk. This locomotive was built for dem-onstration purposes under an agreement with the Pennsyl-vania Railroad, as described on page 92 of the Street Rail-way Journal for July 20, 1907, and is No. 10,003, theother two locomotives built under the agreement havingbeen of the direct-current type. The locomotive is of the articulated type and consists oftwo separate halves, each of which, however, is complete initself and each half has a maximum draw-bar pull of 20,-000 lbs. Only one of these halves has been built and thatone formed the exhibit at Atlantic City and is illustrated inthe accompanying engraving.
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A.C. LOCOMOTIVE SHOWN AT ATLANTIC CITY The underframing of the locomotive is of the Atlantictype, of cast-steel with cast-steel end sills and gross girders,and provides for two driving axles with wheels 72 ins. indiameter and a pilot truck with wheels 36 ins in diameter.The total wheel base of the half-locomotive illustrated is20 ft. 7 ins.; the rigid wheel base is 7 ft. 6 ins. and thewheel base of the pony truck is 6 ft. 2 ins. The motors aremounted on the driving axles with the same sort of suspen-sion as employed in the New Haven locomotives, but aremore powerful, having a capacity on one-hour rating of500 hp with a maximum of 800 hp and a continuous capacityrating of 375 hp. This gives a tractive effort for the totallocomotive, maximum, 40,000 lbs., or on the one-hour ratingof 14,700 lbs., or a continuous capacity of 9200 lbs. An inspection of the interior of the locomotive showsgreat simplicity as compared with the New Haven locomo-tive, owing principally to the fact that no prov

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