The Street railway journal (1904) (14575480677)

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Title: The Street railway journal

Year: 1884 (1880s)

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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation

Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

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ore Congregational Church conceived the idea ofrunning an immigration special over the elevated line in con-nection with a church entertainment. Those participating weredressed as immigrants in their native garb. The special trainmade a round trip from Wilson Avenue over the down-townloop, after which it was abandoned for a supper and vaudevilleentertainment at a neighboring hall. +++ In preparing for its winter schedule, which will give throughcars from Cleveland to Toledo on two hourly headway, insteadof hourly as at present, the Lake Shore Electric Railway isplanning to run its limiteds in trains of two or more coachesto take care of the additional traffic. The limited cars areequipped with the G. E. multiple-train control system, and theair brake and couplers are being arranged so that this plan canbe adopted if found desirable. It will probably be necessaryto separate the cars at the city limits of Cleveland and Toledoand run them into these cities singly. STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL.

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(Vol. XXIV. No. 18. A NOVEL ARMATURE BANDINGLATHE Many attempts have been made inthe past to perfect an automatic arma-ture banding machine which wouldfacilitate this difficult task in repairingarmatures. One of the most interest-ing and successful is that which hasrecently been built by the HartfordStreet Railway Company, of Hart-ford, Conn., for use in its electricalrepair shops. The banding of arma-tures was formerly accomplished thereby the usual method of winding onthe banding wire in an ordinary en-gine lathe, the tension being giventhe banding wire by makeshift brak-ing methods, with the difficulties at-tendant. The new banding lathe,which has been recently designed andbuilt for this purpose, is arranged notonly to provide the necessary ten-sion in winding, but also automatical-ly to feed the wire axially along thelathe bed as it is wound upon the core. The new design is illustrated in theaccompanying drawing. As may benoted, it is an adaptation of a plainspeed lathe with a 6-f

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