Identifier: railwaylocomotiv26newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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The New York, New Haven and Hartford R. R., which now has in operation as many as fifteen. The Spokane and Inland R. R. of State of Washington has recently received a Baldwin-Westinghouse electric switcher shown in our illustration. The cab is located centrally, and sloping hoods are provided to give abetter view when coupling and un- for car lighting and for signal operation. The construction and method of assembling were discussed and we now come to the care of battery, which applies equally well to either type. The amount of current which can be taken out of a battery is limited, and it is therefore necessary to charge same at intervals. The strength or density of the electrolyte rises during charge and falls during discharge due to the chemical changes. This rise and fall in the specific gravity of the electrolyte affords a convenient means of following the operation of the battery. Proper operation is very necessary, as both over discharging and excessive overcharging are very injurious
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ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE FOR THE INLAND EMPIRE SYSTEM, SPOKANE, WASH. coupling from the cars. The motors, of which there are four each of type 301-D-2, have sufficient capacity to enable the locomotive to exert continuously a tractive effort of 9,400 lbs. It will also exert a tractive effort of 16,000 lbs. at approximately 9.2 miles per hour and on clean dry rails a momentarily maximum tractive effort of 25,000 lbs. can be obtained. The principal dimensions are: Width, 9 ft. 6 in.;height, 12 ft. 1 in.; wheel base, 22 ft. 2in.; driving wheels, 37V2 in. Storage Batteries. In our previous articles on the electric storage battery of the lead type we have considered the types most interesting to railroad men, namely, those to the plates. This rise and fall can be tested by means of a hydrometer, two kinds being illustrated and described in our last issue. By choosing one cell in a battery and testing the specific gravity the condition of the whole battery is known as all of the cells rise and fall t

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