Identifier: streetrailwayjo181901newy (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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ere can be no doubt that the Germans are in thefront rank. To those who took part in the visit the expres-sion made in Germany will, in electrical machinery, atany rate, convey the meaning that the design, workman-ship and finish is of the best. The thorough way in which Current is collected from a third rail by the side of thetrack by means of a number of sliding shoes fixed to theaxle boxes of the motor car axles. The return is by meansof the track rails. The conductor rails are of ordinaryVignoles section, with the bottom flange resting on theporcelain insulator. The rubbing surface of the conductorrail is 320 mm above the track rail. Wooden guards arerun along each side of the conductor rails. Electric power is generated in the station of the Gross-Lichterfelde electric tramways, and is conducted to theconduct rails by means of overhead wires suspended fromwooden masts. The engine is of the compound condensing type, coupledto a Siemens & Halske dynamo, having an exterior arma-
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TEN-CAR TRAIN ON WANNSEE RAILWAY—FRONT AND REAR CARS, ARE MOTOR CARS everything is inspected and tested before being sent outmade a great impression. THE ELECTRIC RAILWAYS OF BERLIN During their stay in Berlin the members of the institu-tion were shown three electric railways—the railway fromBerlin to Wannsee, the experimental three-phase railway,10,000 volts, at Gross-Litcherfelde, and the new elevatedand underground railway in Berlin. The two first were inoperation, and the last is nearing completion. The first train on the Wannsee railway commenced rvm-ning in August, 1900, the method of traction employed be-ing continuous current at 750 volts, to allow of the use ofstorage batteries. The trains are composed of ten ordinarysuburban train cars of the Prussian State railways, the firstand last being fitted with motors. The weight of the trainwhen empty is 193 tons. Each of the six axles of the two-motor cars is coupled to a motor, and the weight of ad-hesion is, therefore, equal

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