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Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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gine-driven units of the VirginiaPassenger & Power Company, already installed. A lighting station will be installed at Ashland, the equipmentfor which will consist of a 3-phase generator mounted upon acommon base with a 150-horsepower induction motor. The over-head construction will be of the catenary type and current will befed to the trolley at 6,600 volts. Each of the cars will be equippedwith four G-E single-phase motors and the Sprague-General Elec-tric system of multiple-unit control. The air-brakes used will beof the combined straight and automatic type. BRILL CONVERTIBLE CARS FOR GREENVILLE, S. C. The Greenville (S. C.) Traction Company operates a line 12miles long extending through a thickly settled suburban districtwith a population of about 30.000 people. Current for the opera-tion of the line is purchased from the Greenville Gas & ElectricLight & Power Company, which uses steam power at present butwill change to water-power in the near future. The railway corn-
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Type of Kuhlman Semi-Convertible Car used in Rochester. N. Y. management states that It has found the semi-convertible carespecially adapted to its operating conditions. The railway com-pany has at the present time in operation or under contract aboutone hundred cars of the semi-convertible type. For park service on the line connecting Genessee Valley Parkand Seneca Park. 15 single-truck center-aisle open trail cars pulledby single-truck closed motor cars, are operated. These trains eachhave one motorman and two conductors. At the end of last year the G. C. .Kuhlman Car Companyshipped 20 semi-convertible cars constructed under Brill patentsto the Rochester Railway Company. This railway company hasrecently placed an order with the same builders for 25 additionalcars of a similar type, one of which is shown in the accompanyingillustration. The semi-convertible cars measure 28 feet over the end pan-els and 39 feet over platform crown .pieces; width over sills in-cluding panels 7 feet 6,4

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