Identifier: electricrailway531919newy (find matches)
Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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lent, due not to faultydesign but to the impossibility of getting into a finishedmachine what the designers intended. A considerablenumber of generator fires were reported, due pre-sumably to the difficulty of securing first-class opera-tion, combined, no doubt, with the same shortcomingsas appeared in turbines. In power distribution, warindustries have superimposed high load-factor loads ondistribution cables, reducing their carrying capacityas judged by pre-war standards. All in all, the war period has been a hard one forthe producer of electric power, but he has, to speakbroadly, risen marvellously to the emergency. Powergeneration was considered so vital to the prosecutionof the war that the industry was highly favored by thegovernment. Such limitations as surrounded it werenecessities of the time. The manufacturers and opera-tors who devoted their energies during the war periodto the insuring of an adequate and reliable power supplyperformed a patriotic duty of no mean magnitude.
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May 24, 1919 Electric Railway Journal 995 Using Modern Appliances in Track Construction A Recent Contract Job in Denver Furnishes an Illustration ofHow Up-to-Date Equipment Gives Speedand Economy in Construction By w. l. whitlock Office Engineer Denver (Col.) Tramway IN A RECENT track constructionjob the Denver Tramway departedfrom its usual practice in that itlet the track construction end of thejob by contract, something that hadnot been done on this system forfifteen years. The contract was leton account of the scarcity of laborand the necessity for completing thework within a specified time. All ofthe rail, ties and special trackworkhad been purchased and delivered, andas the Public Utilities Commissionhad ordered the work done there wasonly the labor shortage to prevent itsspeedy completion. The Tramwayallowed the contractor the use of itstrack construction tools and equip-ment in order to facilitate the work. The equipment mentioned is listedbelow, and the list is interesting as

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