Identifier: streetrailwayrev07amer ( find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 ( 1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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of Portland cementconcrete, 12 in. wide and 8 in. deep. Two motors on eachcarareof the G. E. Soo type, each capable of a nominal outputof 35 h. p., and mounted on a Peckham truck. The motorsare regulated bv one or the otlier of two Ki series-parallel EXCESSIVE DAMAGES NOT ALLOWED. A year ago the four year old son of Loren Fo\ was killedby an electric car of the Oakland Consolidated Street RailwayCompany and a verdict of $6,000 was given to the fatherby the superior court. The railway company appealed tothe supreme court and the venlict was set aside. The fatherof the boy is a poor plumber and in reference to the damagessustained by him on account of the loss of his son, JudgeVan Fleet said : We think it quite manifest u))ou its face that the \ erdictwas actuated by something other than a consideration of theevidence. When we regard the (jrobable number of yearsto be taken in his schooling comparatively little valuable timewould be left to be de\ oted to the service of the parent. And
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CORNER FOURTH ANU ADA.MS STKl-.l:l controllers, placed one at each end of the ear. Eight of thesemotor cars have already been equipped and four trailers.The Peckham trucks appear to carry all before them in thiscountry, as every electric tramway now running is usingthem. The car bodies, which are supplied by the BrushElectrical Engineering Company, are very comfortablyfitted. They hold 20 passengers inside and 24 outside.Another feature of the car equipment is the placing of ameter on each car to measure the energy taken by themotors. In this was a check on the driver will be kept, sothat au\ undue waste by careless use of the controllers maybe prevented. The power plant consists of two Mcintosh& Seymour engines, direct coupled to two loo-k. w. dynamosof the General Electric type. The switchboard is built upoftwo standard G. E. panels with additional panels formeters. The Metropolitan road of Kansas City hauled 135,000passengers Sunday, August 15. This is the best record for1897,

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