Image: Electric traction for railway trains; a book for students, electrical and mechanical engineers, superintendents of motive power and others (1911) (14572144498)

Description: Identifier: electrictraction00burc (find matches) Title: Electric traction for railway trains; a book for students, electrical and mechanical engineers, superintendents of motive power and others .. Year: 1911 (1910s) Authors: Burch, Edward P. (Edward Parris), 1870-1945 Subjects: Railroads Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill Book Company Contributing Library: The Library of Congress Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: for its New York-Lo:Island, suburban service; and in 1911 to Newark, New Jersey. Tmotor-car train requires greater energy than the locomotive becauof the continuity of service, the higher acceleration, and the freque-iustops. Motor-car train equipment already purchased consists of about 225 steer motorcars, for passenger service. Pennsylvania standard trucks are used with side-extendedbolster springs and 8.5-foot wheel bases. Power equipment per motor car consists oftwo Westinghouse 215-h.p., direct-current motors. Forced draft is used to cool andto keep out the dust and grit. The entire axle is enclosed to keep the dust out ofbearings. The motor equipment was described under Ventilation of Motors. SeeFigure 42, page 184. Each car is a motor car and weighs 53 tons. MOTOR-CAR TRAINS 251 Long Island Railroad, a subsidiary company, operates 138 steel 38- to41-ton passenger motor cars, with two 200-h.p. motors per car, forsuburban service west of Brooklyn to distant points on Long Island. Text Appearing After Image: h Fig. 70.—Long Island Railroad Motor-car Train. Steel Coaches - New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad purchased, in 1909, )_ notor cars and 6 trail coaches for its local service between New York J Gy and Stamford, Connecticut, 34 miles. The motor cars are designed pull 2 trail cars. Steel cars, built by the Standard Steel Car Company, Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
Title: Electric traction for railway trains; a book for students, electrical and mechanical engineers, superintendents of motive power and others (1911) (14572144498)
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