Identifier: streetrailwayrev12amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
d outsideand inside, and pass through the walls in 6-in glazed tiles withX-iii. gla/ed tile hoods on outside as shown. The ground plan ofLemonl station is shown in Fig. a.v The Summit station lackswaiting room and porch. The wire towers are located at the cor-ners of the generator rooms over the switchboard, and the onlyinterior openings in the towers are through the ceilings of genera-tor ro. I Ik second story of each sub-station, over the generator room,i- divided into living quarters for the operator and his family,consisting of two chambers, living room, kitchen and bath room,with all conveniences. There arc also provided two chambers forother employes who may be compelled to pass the night here incase of emergency. I in sub-stations arc heated by low pressure steam apparatus,with gravity return. Two hundred feet of track space is provided in each buildingEot construction cars, snow plows, etc.. and for cars which may berequired for early or late runs on the upper end of the line.
Text Appearing After Image:
JOLIET StB-NTATION AND CAR BARN. Fik. IS Soulh End.Pig. 16 Switchboard. the upper surfaces of piers are anchored j x 12-in. plates fur-nished with clips to hold the rails in place. The tracks arcformed with 9-in. center bearing girder rails, Lorain section 106-364 (Kansas City standard, weighing 106 lb. per yd. 1. held to gageacross the dummy tracks with tie rods spaced 5 ft. apart. The Fi(*. 17—Battery Room.Fitf. 18—Booster. In all stations the machine foundations and pits are built ofconcrete, the space under generators, back of switchboard and un-der transformers being arched over. All low tension wiring is done with lead covered cable laid inducts running under the floors between pits. High tension wires Jan. is. 1902.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW II are insulated with oiled cambric tape and carried on porcelaininsulators on brackets back of switchboard and over transformers.High tension lightning arresters are installed on walls of wiretower, with stone barriers between adjacent se

Note About Images