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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
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ng from a water-fall the power for operating a250-volt, direct-current dynamo. In 1884, E. M. Bentley and Walter H. Knight operated in Cleveland,Ohio, a road having two miles of underground conduit, placed betweenthe rails. This installation was perhaps the first in which the cars were HISTORY OF ELECTRIC TRACTION 5 driven by a series motor, placed under the car floor. Wire-rope andsprocket-chain drive, and later, bevel gearing, were tried. The road wasoperated about one year. See Martin and Wetzlers The Electric Motor,1887; St. Ry. Journ., Feb., 1889; Bentley, Elec. World, March 5, 1904. In 1884, Daft operated a pioneer line, 2 miles long, for the UnionPassenger Railway Co., between Baltimore and Hampden. Two 3-tonmotor cars were used to haul trailers. The over-running trolley and athird-rail contact were both installed. The motors were a series, 130-volt, direct-current, single-geared type. Elec. World, March 5, 1904. In 1885, John C. Henry built an electric railroad in Kansas City.
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fiG. 3.—Electric Locomotive Car and Train. Van Depoele, Minneapolis, 1883. There were two cars, each equipped with a 7-h.p., 250-volt, direct-current motor. The overhead trolley wires were 10 inches apart, andtwo pairs of over-running trolley wheels were held by springs in lateralcontact with each wire, the trolley w^heels being mounted on a singlecarriage, and connected with the motors by means of flexible cables.The creditors received 8 cents on a dollar. Elec. World, Oct. 20, 1910,p. 934. In 188G, Van Depoele, working at Minneapolis for the Minneapolis,Lyndale and Minnetonka Railv/ay, which had been obliged to discontinuethe use of steam locomotives in the business portions of the city, equippedan electric locomotive car for hauling trains. 6 ELECTRIC TRACTION FOR RAILWAY TRAINS
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