Identifier: streetrailwayjo241904newy (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.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ONE OF THE ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES WITH BOW COLLECTOR AND THIRD-RAIL SHOES, FOR THE NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY ends by headstocks 15 ins. x 4 ins. x */>-in. of channel section. Tothe front of these are bolted oak headstocks isH ms- x 8 ins. Thewhole frame is firmly riveted with steel angles and gussets, allholes being drilled and edges of plates machined. The under-frame bolster is formed by two girders each 6 ins. x 5 ins. x ^2-in. at the driving corners being arranged to lower. A sliding door isfitted on each side, of ash, glazed at the top and paneled at thebottom, bearing on the outside the arms of the company in transfer.The doorways are 2 ft. 4 ins. wide and 6 ft. in the clear. At the endsof the cab are two windows arranged to slide transversely. Arrange-
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A VIEW OF THE FREIGHT YARD AT NEWCASTLE, SHOWING OVERHEAD WIRES AND THIRD RAIL of I section, held together on the top by a plate 3 ft. wide and J^-in.thick, and on the lower side by a plate 17 ins. wide x j4-in. thick.Between the bolsters evenly spaced there are three cross girderseach 8 ins. x 3^2 ins. x %-in. of channel section, backed with aplate 15 ins. wide x y^-m. thick. On the top of the frame is a floorof fireproof wood 1% ins. thick, fixed transversely with a top orlining floor of ^-in. thickness laid longitudinally. The draw gear, ments are made for driving the locomotive from each end of the cab,and it is therefore fitted complete in duplicate with master control-ler, air brake, sand and whistle valves. In the center of the cab isfitted a cast iron column to carry the hand brake gear. There ison each side a panel for the control and pump circuit accessorieswith a main panel at one end for main and control switches, etc.Air gages and ammeters are also fixed in each driving p

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