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Identifier: electricrailwayr162amer (find matches)
Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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n line. Theaverage line loss for the distribution system does not exceedtwo per cent. Chestnut poles 35 and 40 feet high with 7-inch tops andset 100 feet apart support the overhead work. The trolleybrackets are made of two-inch pipe and each has at its outer Toledo & Chicago Interurban Railway—View Showing Construc-tion on Curves. the pole to the wire. On sharp curves such sticks are placed18 inches apart to give the wire an easy curve. The 33,000-volt high-tension line consists of two Xo. 4hard-drawn copper wires carried on Locke, 9-inch, triple-petticoat insulators cemented on 14-inch iron pins at oppositeends of a cross-arm 4 by 5 inches by 6 feet in size. This lineis not transposed. For lightning protection there are ar-resters in the power house and substations. The telephone line consists of No. 9 iron wire trans-posed every other pole by supporting one wire on the cross-arm and one on a bracket. Generating Station. The power station at Kendallville is a red brick building
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Toledo & Chicago Interurban Railway—Gravel Pit and Work Tr end an iron pin clamped about the bracket pipe and sup-porting a Locke porcelain insulator. These insulators carryin their top seats a %-inch Roebling special steel messengeror catenary cable which has been tested to 7,000 pounds. Thegrooved trolley wire is supported in a horizontal position byhangers from the messenger cable spaced 50 feet apart on of pleasing design, 110 by 98 feet in floor area. A fire walldivides the interior space longitudinally into an engine room48 feet clear to the base of the roof trusses and a boiler room35 feet clear to the roof structure. The engine room isserved by Northern crane of 24,000 pounds capacity. The present boiler equipment consists of three Stirling 592 ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW October, 1906. units of 450 horsepower (rated) each, set one singly andtwo in a battery. Steam is generated at 165 pounds pressure.This equipment and the auxiliaries occupy but one-half of theboiler house,

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  • bookid:electricrailwayr162amer
  • bookyear:1906
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:American_Street_and_Interurban_Railway_Association
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • bookpublisher:Chicago___Wilson_Co
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:248
  • bookcollection:carnegie_lib_pittsburgh
  • bookcollection:americana
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