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

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the larger beam and may he drawnI to project 25 it the front line of the ovens. The armature is suspended in a sling from a special casting having rollerswhich may he -lipped over the lower Ranges of the sin. I beammentioned. The casting i- provided wnli an eye by which tining and the armature may he picked up by a pneumatic hoist andcarried about the shops. When an armature is to be baked it is M w ao, igoa-) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 265 brought to the oven by the hoist and the casting mentioned isslipped over the 5-in. I beam, after which both the beam and the casting arc pushed back until the armature is wholly within the..ven and the sliding door may he closed. Each compartment hasthree of these overhead trolleys and space on the Hour for twoarmatures on trucks, making room tor five armatures in each com-partment There are three Simplex electric heaters in each division, cmon each oi the sides. It i- found possible with a 525 volt current to EFFECT OF THE BOSTONTRAFFIC. ELEVATED ON
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BAKING OVEN KH ARMATURES. maintain a temperature ..i 16 F. with 3.2 amperes of cttr- with 4.75 arnpt ri ol currentAll the departments of thi trgi Mr, W. I). Wright, superintendent of equipment, and many of the devicesand m< d under In- direction. THE LANCASTER RELIEF ASSOCIATION. Railway & Light Co R iation, lini held its annual dirav ception at the Eagle Hotel, Mechanicsburg, April . rip fr..m I in a spei ial car, «itli Frank ral managei of the company; II. I.. and S. I • Itcndi nt ..f nan, 1ug them the tupporl and 1:i the fraternal and charitable work of thiMr. I! I. /....k. financial read the report f..r the aid outfor tli.oh d I he organization hiding ita 1.1 program and il return I I 1 Mr. from mil 1 1 m ..i ..Hi Mich. 1 Rail ( -I thi Godfrey Building (H North Ionia St., ■ The elevated railway in Boston has now been in operation asufficient length ..f time to make it possible to form a reasonablyaccurate estimate of the value of the service, and to demonstratein what

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