Identifier: streetrailwayjo141898newy (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.
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re carried entirely under ground, and aretapped into the trolley wire every half mile. They weresupplied by Siemens Brothers. The power station is within a half mile of the northernterminus of the line at Springburn, and is a brick buildingwith temporary end wall of corrugated iron and measures,inside dimensions, 61 ft. x 36 ft. The chimney is of brick,100 ft. in height, and measures at the top 8 ft. outsidediameter, 5 ft. 8 ins. inside diameter, and at its base 12 ft.outside diameter and 6 ft. inside diameter. The boilerroom contains two Babcock & Wilcox boilers of 250 h.p.each. They have a heating surface of 2530 sq. ft. and agrate area of 51 sq. ft., and are equipped with Vicars au-tomatic stoers; Worthington condensers, and Blake-Knowles pumps are employed. The engine room contains three Mcintosh & Seymourhorizontal tandem compound engines, purchased throughR. W. Blackwell & Company. They have cylinder dimen-sions of 11 ins. and 22 ins x 24 ins., operate at 200 r.p.m.,
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November, 1898.J STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 729 and have an i.h.p. each of 300 to 450. They are suppliedwith a steam pressure of 170 lbs., and are direct connectedto the generators. The latter are of the Westinghouseeight-pole, 200 kw. type, with 380 amps, at 550 volts. Theswitchboard is also of the Westinghouse type, and containsthree feeder, three engine and two Board of Trade panels.It is equipped with Weston voltmeters and ammeters andrecording voltmeters, as well as the other usual appli-ances. The rolling stock of the company consists of twenty-fivecars, of which twenty-one are single-deck and four double-deck; twenty-three of the cars are mounted on doubletrucks and two on single trucks. The cars in use were power. The construction was recently commenced, andthe total electric system will be completed about April 1,1899. The line from Gratz to Maria Trost is single track,and has a length of 5.2 km., a gage of 1.0 m., and a maxi-mum grade of 3.9 per cent. There are many curves havi

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