Identifier: electricrailway481916newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ext spring, and as soon as these areready all classes of freight will be solicited. An entry into the freight business on so elaborate aplan naturally gave rise to the necessity for suitablemotive equipment to handle heavy trains. The servicewas, therefore, not begun in earnest until the arrival,thirty days ago, of two new 72-ton locomotives builtby the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Com-pany, and designed especially for the requirements ofthe road and the service. In general, these are eight-wheel, swivel-truck, 6600-volt, single-phase, four-motorlocomotives, capable of exerting continuously withforced ventilation a tractive effort of 13,600 lb. at aspeed of 15.8 m.p.h. with 220 volts at each motor. Theywill exert a tractive effort of 20,800 lb. for one hour atapproximately 12.4 m.p.h., and with clean dry rails willgive a momentary maximum tractive effort of 36,000 lb.A feature of the design is the mounting of all equip-ment, piping and conduit within the cab in easily ac-
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SOUTH SHORE LOCOMOTIVES—VIEW OF LOCOMOTIVE SHOWING BOX CAB WITH SIDE DOORS November 11, 1916) ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 1019

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