Image from page 1213 of “Electric railway journal” (1908)

Identifier: electricrailway381911newy
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
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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ines of the Milwaukee Light, Heat & TractionCompany is published in Table I. As earlier stated, the high-voltage lines operate to andfrom the Milwaukee terminal over 600-volt city and con-necting lines. Thus the service requires more high-voltagecars than would be necessary to operate only the high-volt-age sections. Considering only the high-voltage sectionsten motor cars and eighteen trailers would be sufficient tohandle the traffic. The disposition of cars on the threelines then would be as shown in Table III. December 2, iqi 1.] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL • 139 Table III.—Disposition of Cars on the Thkee Lines Water- Easttown Motors 4 Trailers 6 Motor cars operating eight months, Sundays 3 Trailers operating four months, Sundays 5 Troy.4 Bur-lington24 1.5 3 ratus, whereas formerly, with the single-phase apparatus,they weighed approximately 80,000 lb. Both types ofmotors have commutating poles and are designed for opera-tion on both 600 volts and 1200 volts. The gear ratio of

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Milwaukee Interurban Lines—Waukesha Beach 1200-VoltSubstation Building SINGLE-PHASE CARS The original single-phase motor cars, ten in number,had the characteristics given in Table IV. Table IV.—Data of Single-Phase Cars. Length over all 53 ft. 5 in. Length over corner posts 40 ft. 0 in. Width over belt rail 8 ft. 4 in. Height from rail over roof board 11 ft. 11)4 in- Truck-center distance 29 ft. 0 in. Wheel base 6 ft. 1 in. Wheel diameter 3 ft. 0 in. Trucks, M. C. B. type, company design. Seating capacity , 66 Motors, four a. c.-d. c. GE-605 ,. 75 hp Total weight with a. c. motors 80,000 lb. I2OO-V0LT CARS The present 1200-volt passenger rolling stock consistsof the ten cars designed for single-phase use, fifteen newpassenger cars and five utility cars. The fifteen new steel Milwaukee Interurban Lines—Grade Separation on Wau-kesha Line the 205 motors is 2.525 and that of the 207 motors is 3.05. The standard interurban trailer cars of the Milwaukeeinterurban system seat fifty-fou

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