Identifier: streetrailway03amer (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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dence portion along the route is laid off interraces, and one of the greatest points of interest is astop at the Bowen road which stretches along for miles.This road is the city aqueduct paved over smoothlyand is one of the most beautiful pleasure walks in theworld. The cable road was opened for traffic in iS88, and wasthree years in construction. The gauge is five feet, andthe grade averages one in four, with a minimum of one The cars are of the composite pattern on double trucks,32 feet long, weighing 4^^ tons empty. They carryfortj passengers and two employes. For safety in this sensational climb, a clip-brake, grip-ping a center rail is used, and frequent governmentaltests are made of the machinery and rope. Our engravings show the method of guiding the ropeby means of pulleys placed at intervals for straight runs,lateral curves and concave vertical curves. The road issuccessful - commercially, and a great convenience totravelers. The personnel of the companys force is as follows:
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HUNG KONG CAULE—ONE CAK AUUVE AND ONE CAR BELOW IOl.NT WHEKE rilOTOURAri! IS TAKEN. in twenty-five and a maximum of one in two feet. Themethod used is the tail end system, with a cable 2Hinches in circumference and breaking strain of fifty tons,made by D. H. and G. Haggle, Sunderland, England.The rope winds three times around the drum, which iseight feet in diameter at the bottom of the grooves. Themotive power is furnished by two pairs of engines of 220indicated horse-power, made by Ruston, Proctor & Co.,London, supplied by two 40 horse power semi-portablelocomotive boilers. Municipal regulations require a speed of less than 9miles per hour. The actual speed, however, is from$j4 to 6yi miles an hour. I. F. Boulton, A. M. I. C. E., resident engineer; W.Smith, C. E., Aberdeen, Scotland, consulting engineer;I. D. Humphreys & Son, Hong Kong, managers. THE NEW YORK COMMISSION. THE ultimatum of the much-suffered New YorkRapid Transit Commission is at hand. This ukaseholds the und

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