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Identifier: railwaylocomotiv29newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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parlor cars andcoaches. The standard cars are 56 feetlong, weight 87,300 pounds each and arcdivided into express, main passenger andsmoking compartments. The parlor cars,which are hauled on express trains havea buffet and seat sixty persons. They arctilted up with appointnieiits equal in everyway to parlor cars operated by steam rail-roads and thus the system offers as com-plete comfort to the traveler as can be se-cured on competing steam lines, with theadded comfort of freedom from smoke,etc. Each motor car is equipped withfour Westinghouse 120 horsepower, 600-1.200 volt commutating pole motors, and1,200 volt IIL control. Since the opening of the road the pas-senger traffic I)etween Oakland and Sacra-iTiento has increased so rapidly that in or-der to meet the demands it has been neces-sary to supplement the multiple unit trains:ind cars by electric locomotive hauledtrains composed of standard passengercoaches. For this purpose four articulat-iiiS truck, hicrh speed. 62-ton Baldwin-
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CAR FERRY "RAMON", OAKLAND, ANTIOCH AND EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. this bay. Meanwhile the cars with pas-sengers aboard are ferried across so thatno change of cars is necessary. The carferry is known as the Ramon, and isconstructed entirely of steel. It is 185 of opposite pitch and the direction of theIxat is controlled by engaging either oneclutch or the other, thus avoiding revers-ing. There are three tracks on the maindeck, each 220 feet long, and can accomo- Westinghouse electric locomotives areemployed. Each is equipped with four250 horsepower, 600-1,200 volt, commutat-ing pole motors, geared 24:47 with 42-inch wheels, giving a maximum permissi- 328 RATI.WAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. October, 1916. ble speed of 70 miles per hour. These lo-comotives are able to haul five steel, 37!^-ton coaches on a level tangent track with1,100 volts on the trolley, at a balancingspeed of 56 miles per hour. HL controlmounted in the center of each locomotivecab controls the power to the motors
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