Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (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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ction pump made bythe Lawrence Machine Company, which pumps the waterthrough a pipe placed some three or four feet undergroundto the power station a mile distant. Blake feed pumps of the duplex-compound type are used.The water enters the boilers at a temperature of 275 degs.F. There are three heaters, the first, or main heater, being aWainwright, made by the Taunton Locomotive Manufac-turing Company, which heats the water to 140 degs., theauxiliary heater, which is a Berryman, heating it to 190 A complete oiling system has been installed, which is con-nected to a 200-gallon tank in the roof. The oil is deliveredat the bearings, etc., by gravity at a pressure of 10 lbs. persquare inch and then returned to the filters in the oil houseand used over and over. CARS. The electrical equipment of the rolling stock was fur-nished almost entirely by the General Electric Company, ofSchenectady. The total number of cars is thirty-six closedcars and thirty-nine open cars. There are eighteen 16-ft.
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SOME VIEWS IN RORICKS GLEN degs., and a Wainwright even-flow heater using live steambrings it to the final temperature of 275 degs. The pressurein the steam headers is 165 lbs. Compressed air is used toclean generators and cars. The switchboard is equipped with oil switches and oil-cooled feeder regulators, and until recently was on the mainfloor of the engine room. It has now been raised to a gal-lery, so that the attendants are away from the machineryand have a complete view of the room. The various classesof service given by the station necessitate a somewhat com-plex array of instruments and switches, but each depart-ment is kept entirely distinct on each division of the board. vestibuled box cars built by the John Stephenson Company,seven 18-ft. closed cars built by the J. G. Brill Company,four 20-ft. cars most of which were furnished by the BrillCompany and some by the American Car Company, sixeight-wheeled closed cars (42-ft. over all) built by both theJohn Stephenson Company a

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