Identifier: electricrailway371911newy (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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Southern Pacific Electrification—Platform Gates andCouplings are rolled steel 33 in. in diameter. The motor trucks weigh15,000 lb. without motors and the trailer trucks weigh 10,000 lb. WEIGHT The motor coaches when completely equipped and ready forservice weigh 109,400 lb. and the trailer coaches weigh 67,200lb. The weight per passenger seat, based on the combined seat-
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Southern Pacific Electrification—Repair Shops at West Alameda 1052 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXXVII. No. 24. ing capacity and weights of a motor coach and a trailer coach,is 761 lb. Omitting the weight of the seats, draft gear and springbuffers the car bodies alone weigh only 47 lb. per square footof floor area, or 486 lb. per linear foot. BRAKES AND MOTORS The cars are equipped with Westinghouse pneumatic trainsignals and schedule A M L automatic air brakes having thefeatures of quick service, quick recharge, graduated release andhigh pressure in emergency applications. The air brake com-pressor is operated by a motor wound for 1200 volts. It has acapacity of 35 cu. ft. of free air per minute and is controlled byan automatic governor, which maintains the main reservoirpressure between 85 lb. and 100 lb. Each of the motor cars is equipped with four GE-207-A mo-tors of 125 hp each. The motors are geared to give a maximumspeed of 40 m.p.h., although the schedule speed is only 20

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