Identifier: streetrailwayrev161amer (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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transferringmachinery and conveying material to nil points on the lines. Thecar is known as type 46-M. It has a length of 45 ft. 7 in., awidth of 8 ft. 5 in. and a height of 11 ft. 9 in. It is mounted onBrill type 27E-1 trucks, has 33-in. wheels and the usual series-parallel K control system. The crane has a lifting capacity of five tons. The framework is shops is shown in the accompanying line drawing. The sweeperhas an over all length of 28 ft. 5 in. and an inside length of 24 ft5 in. The width is 9 ft. 2 in. and the height from the rail to thetop of the trolley board is 8 ft. 5 in. It is mounted on McGuiretrucks having .1 wheel base i 6 ft. 6 in. and the diameter of thewheels is 33 in. Schenectady Railway Benefit Association. Through the agencies of benefit associations, street railway com-panies and their employes are brought into closer relations, re-sulting in a better mutual understanding. The Schenectady Rail-way Co., Schenectady. N. Y., has such a benefit association, and as
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CRANE CAR OF THE SCHENECTADY RAILWAY CO. made of cast iron with its center placed seven feet from one endof the car. The boom has a swing of 10 ft. on either side of thecar. The bulkhead to which the lifting ropes of the boom areattached is nine feet high, and 1%-in. manila ropes are used. Theropes work through wrought iron guard blocks and over a 10-in.drum with a J4-in. face. The ropes for the hoist are operateddirectly by a separate drum. An accompanying illustration showsthe detail design of the crane table and bed with their roller bear-ings. There has been installed on this car a 3-h. p. GE, type-CE slowspeed motor, operating on 500 volts pressure and geared to thehoisting drum. The motor is series-wound with a speed reduction its workings have been generally successful, a presentation of itsplans and methods of operation may be of interest to other elec-tric railways contemplating the organization of similar associa-tions. The objects of the association include the collection a

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