Identifier: electricrailway381911newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ingFeatures of the Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railroad Reasons Controlling Car Design and Motor Capacity Are Given As Well As Costs of Maintenance For Cars, TransmissonLines and Substations. The Article Also Presents a Description of the Lighting SystemsOperated, One of Which Uses l2.5-Cycle Current Illustrated articles in the two preceding issues of thispaper have described the track and roadway operatingmethods and the power generating and distributing sys-tem of the Aurora, Elgin & Chicago Railroad. The fol-lowing article concludes the series on this property: The rolling stock equipment of the third-rail divisionincludes fifty passenger cars, all of which have heavy steelunderframes, semi-steel side construction and mahoganyinterior finish. The cars are designed for train operationand have end doors and Van Dorn couplers. They areequipped with automatic air brakes and electromagneticconductors signals which are operated by utilizing onewire in the regular train control cable.
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Aurora, Elgin & Chicago—Three-Car Train The cars originally purchased for the third-rail divisionwere 47 ft. 10 in. long. All were built to conform to theclearances of the Metropolitan W est Side Elevated Rail-way and were provided with running gear for operation intrains around the sharp curves on the elevated structure.After two or three years of operation it was found thatthe car length could be increased to 53 ft. 4 in. and stillmeet the elevated track operating conditions. This lengthaccordingly is the present standard. Six years ago the original straight air-brake equipmentwas replaced by the Westinghouse AMM schedule of auto-matic air having the features of graduated release, quickrecharge and high emergency braking power. GE 66-B125-hp motors are standard on the third-rail division.Originally all motor cars had quadruple equipments and acertain number of the standard passenger cars withoutmotors were used as trailers, but the severity of the servicehas made it advisable

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