Identifier: streetrailwayjo161900newy (find matches)
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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ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE, PARIS, LYONS, MEDITERRANEAN R. R. herewith. A liberal exhibitor in the French class is theCompanie Generale des Omnibus de Paris, which exhibitsa street railway car operated by accumulators, one of thesteam type, one with an oil engine, and one of the com-pressed-air type. Some of these have been shown already, TRUCK OF GANZ ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE, VINCENNES two General Electric motors of 25 hp each. It affordsthirty-five seats, and the back rails of all but the endbenches are reversible. The Ringhoffer car seats twenty-four passengers, and has standing room for eleven. Itcarries two motors of 25 hp each, of the Siemens-Halskemake. In previous correspondence no note has been made ofthe electric locomotives or locomotive trucks on viewat the Vincennes part of the Exposition. It is well knownthat the various steam railroads of France have been ex-perimenting in the direction of the utilization of electricityon their lines, particularly on urban stretches and aroundthei

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