Electric railway journal (1911) (14756211211)

Identifier: electricrailway381911newy (find matches)

Title: Electric railway journal

Year: 1908 (1900s)

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Subjects: Electric railroads

Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co

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tion from Spiez to Frutigen, formerly operated bysteam locomotives, has been electrified and serves for thepresent as an experimental line. The maximum grade of this section is 1.5 per cent andthe average grade is 1.117 per cent, while the continuation of the line will have a maximum grade of per cent. supplied by the Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon, and the frame-work and other non-electrical parts were supplied by theSwiss Locomotive Works, of Winterthur. The principaldata of this locomotive follow: Mechanical data, in mm: Gage (4 ft. 8.5 in.) : 1,435 Length over buffers 15,020 Width of cab 2,950 Height to top of cab 3,740 Height of cab floor above rail 1,500 Distance between centers of trucks 5,200 Total wheel base 10,700 Wheel base of each truck 4,050 Diameter of driving wheel 1,350 Width of rim of driving wheel 14C Electrical data: Line voltage 15,000 Number of motors 2 Frequency, cycles per second 15 Normal total rated hp 2,000 Normal speed, km per hour 42 Maximum speed, km per hour 70

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Loetschberg Single-Phase Locomotive—Exterior View About 40 per cent of the total length of the experimentalline is in curves, of which the sharpest has a radius of1000 ft. All of this track is now equipped with catenaryoverhead construction. ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES The electric rolling stock on this line consits of twosingle-phase locomotives and three motor cars. The lat-ter and a 2000-hp locomotive were ordered from the Elek-trische Bahnen, Zurich (the joint office for electrictraction on standard-gage lines in Switzerland of theMaschinenfabrik Oerlikon and the Siemens-SchuckertWorks). The other locomotive, which is of 1600 hp, wassupplied by the Allgemeine Elektricitats Gesellschaft, ofBerlin. The Allgemeine locomotive is fitted with twoWinter-Eichberg motors, each driving through connectingrods two axles, combined with one pony axle fitted to onebogie truck. The normal output developed by this loco-motive enables it to haul a 250-ton train at a speed of 25m.p.h. up grades of 2.7 pe

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