Identifier: streetrailwayrev09amer (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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442 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol. IX, No. 7. heavy pieces. The tracks are I-beams supported as shown inthe ilhistrations by rovls from the roof tnis.scs and bracketsattached to tlic walls. The floor plan of the shops showsthe location of the main and branch lines. Instead of the ordinary tongue switches at the junctionpoints of th.e traveler system there are trolleys moving on switch is the invention of Mr. .Sm-ad, of tlu Sncad-VanAlstine-Meldruni Co., of Louisville. The power house is located at one side of the system, thesupply of condensing water having been the controllingfactor in choosing a site. The building is of brick; the roofis tin lined with sheet iron and asbestos. The power house
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NEG.VTIVE LE.\DS ON L.VRllE GENERATOR. TRUSSED TROLLEY BOARD ON CARS. PUMPING PLANT FOR CONDENSING WATER. transverse ways. Suspended from the switch trolley aretwo or three sections of traveler rail onto one of which thecarrying trolley is run ; then the switch trolley is shiftedtransversely and the carrying trolley run on to the othertrack. The switch trolley is shifted by a gear worked fromthe floor by an endless chain. Stops are placed on the switchtrolley on each side of the sections of traveler rail so thatwhen the latter arc shifted a carrying trolley on the branchline cannot run off its rail; the main line is always open,which is the great advantage of the device; also by no pos-sibility can a carrying trolley run ofif at a switch. This is 235 ft. long by 112 ft. 6 in. wide; it is 19 ft. to the eavesand 43 ft. to the peak of the roof. The boiler room is 235 ft. by 52 ft. 6 in. The boilers are18 in number; 4 Babcock & Wilcox of 250 h. p. each withmechanical stokers made by t

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