Identifier: streetrailwayjo151899newy (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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er road that I now of the ordinary type, depending upon adhesion for traction.From Obermatt to a place called Gherst the roadbed isfurnished with a rackrail of the Riggenbach type, the sameas that used on the Rigi; then from Gherst to Engelbergthe track is again of the ordinary adhesion type. Therackrail has a length of 1.54 km. (0.95 mile), and the gradesurmounted by its help has an average of 25 per cent. Themaximum grade on the sections depending for traction onadhesion are 5 per cent, and the minimum radius of curvesis 50 meters (164 ft.). The track is built of Vignolerails weighing 20 kg. to the meter (41 lbs. per yard), placedon metal ties of 22 kg. (48 lbs.) The rails have a length ofof 10.5 m. (34.6 ft.), and the ties are spaced eleven to eachrail length. The problem of equipment has been complicated, as canbe easily seen, by the presence of a section of rack road,laid in between the two sections of ordinary track. Aftera study of the conditions the engineers decided to employ
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VIEW FROM FOOT OF 25-PER-CENT GRADE—THREE PHASE RAILWAY wish to describe to the readers of the Street RailwayJournal. By a half hours trip by boat from Lucerne, the startingpoint for tourists in Switzerland, and in the center of a re-gion of that incomparable beauty which characterizes cen-tral Switzerland, is found the small town of Stansstadt, whichis located in the canton of Unterwald. It is here that ourrailway commences. It then traverses the little coquettishtown of Stans at the foot of the Stanserhorn, and the cap-ital of the demi-canton of Nidwald. It then rises throughthe entire length of the beautiful valley of Engelberg tocome out at the locality of that name, after traversing a dis-tance of 22.5 km. The profile of the railway is representedon the map herewith (Fig. j), which gives the names of thestations. From Stansstadt as far as Obermatt, where the powerstation is located, or about 18 km. (11.2 miles), the track is large cars with a seating capacity of forty-eight, op

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