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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ommended, especially in systems where heavy cars areused, or where the topographical conditions are very varied. (3)Compressed air brakes generally gave good results, but they shouldbe further e-xperimcnlcd with, (4) Other brakes have given rr-sults which are insulTicicnt to warrant a pronouncement respectingthem. Mr. Rochl, of the Hamburg Tramways, stated that theHamburg tests had not been conclusive and the authorities had notbeen aide to base reiiuircments on them. AN ODD JAPANESE CAR. A tourist has discovered an interurban railway in Japan which isoperated by man power. The line is seven miles Icnig and con-nects the two coast towns of Atami and Yoshihonia in the provinceof Izie. The train crew comprises two men and a boy. The men,muscular coolies, push the car on the up-grades and jump on then,ar platform for a ride when the car is coasting on a level ordown-grade. The boy rides on the front platform and it is hisduty to blow a horn as a warning at hills and curves, and to manip-
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SUlil:1<U.\N CAR SERVICE LIETWEEN ATA.Ml AMi VuSUlUU.MA, JAlA.X. Mr. Monmcrque added some information concerning the brakesrequired by the regulations in effect in Paris. The specification isthat each car shall be equipped with brakes sufficiently powerfulto make stop from 20 km. per hour in 20 m., the rail being dry.The General Omnibus Co. placed five brakes on each of its electricvehicles, of- which three could be worked by the driver and theothers by the conductor in the rear of the vehicle. The driverworked, first, a compressed air brake; second, a reversing brake,and third, a hand brake. The conductor at the back had an auto-matic compressed air brake and a hand brake. .411 these brakeswere inspected for each vehicle, and the company invited the gov-ernment engineers to assist them in its efforts. The brakes weretested every morning by the drivers who had to use them. In the discussion reference was made to brake tests made alHamburg for the German Tramway Union. These had bee

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