Text Appearing Before Image: FIG. 16.—SWITCHING LOCOMOTIVE wheel base and equipped with two 38-B Westinghouse motorpropels the car. An ingenious arrangement was made so thatbut one controller is necessary. A false floor was built in and coupling with electric motor cars on account of the quickstart of the car when the motors are thrown on the first notch.To overcome this difficulty Mr. Pemberton devised a soap- Text Appearing After Image: FIG. 15.—FREIGHT MOTOR CAR WITH TRAIN OF CARS the cab 10 ins. above the main floor and the controller wasplaced horizontally in the center between the two floors. Thecontroller rod was then extended to both sides and con-nected by means of bevel gears to vertical rods which areoperated by means of the ordinary controller handles. This stone resistance which is connected to the first notch of thecontroller. This cuts down the current so that the car canbe started up very gradually without any sudden jump. Theresistance is located in one corner of the cab, as indicated inFig. 18. The rest of the engines equipment comprises an air 656 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIII. No. 18. compressor and governor, sand boxes, tool box, air whistleand vertical wheel hand brake. An ordinary trolley arm is usedat present, but it is planned to equip the locomotive with a
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1904
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