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Title:"Buffalo and Lockport Freight Unit. Two used since 1898." Electric locomotives of the Buffalo and Lockport Railroad.
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

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way Company, a subsidiary of the Inter-national Traction Company, has operated two electric locomotivessince 1898 in freight service. The road runs from Lockport to NorthTonawanda, N. Y., 14 miles, and was leased from the Erie Railroad for999 years. Electric passenger service is furnished by motor-car trains. Locomotives are of the two swivel-truck-type. They were designedto haul 10 cars, or a 450-ton trailing load at 14 m. p. h. Locomotiveshave frames of 8-inch channels, 13-foot truck centers, 6-foot truck-wheelbase, 36-inch drivers, a length of 32 feet, and a weight of 38 tons. Motorsare four G. E.-55, rated 160-h. p. each. A 3.28 gear ratio is used. Eachpair of motors runs in series on a 600-volt direct-current circuit. Reference. S. R. J., Sept., 1898, p. 535. See motors, Figure 30. BUSH TERMINAL RAILROAD. Bush Terminal Railroad of South Brooklyn since 1904 has employeda 50-ton locomotive for switching at its extensive docks and warehouses. 308 ELECTRIC TRACTION FOR RAILWAY TRAINS
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Ficj. 88.—Buffalo and Lockport Freight Unit. Two used Since 1898.

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