Identifier: streetrailwayrev05amer (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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ailway workcontinuously for ten years, in San Francisco, (Marketstreet line), Kansas City, Tacoma and Washington. TheColumbia Railway is a double track road, of 2 -^^ miles,extending from Fifteenth street and New York avenue, car house has a frontage of 128 feet, and is 200 feetdeep. In front it is two stories high, the new offices ofthe company being located in the first and second stories.East of the car house, on the other side of the alley, isthe one-story power house, 80 feet front and 200 feetdeep. Both houses will be lighted by an electric lightplant, which has a capacity of 300 incandescent lamps.In the engine room, etc., arc lights will be used. There will be two simple corliss engines, 22 inches by60 inches, made by the Edward P. Allis Company, Mil-waukee, which will be run at the rather slow speed fortheir size, of 54 revolutions. They have the heavy 1890 frame of the Allis Company, and all the latestimprovements in details. The nominal power of one of r iltii-Tr.- — —^
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YOKE SECTIONS—COLUMBIA RAILWAY COMPANY opposite the treasury, easterly along New York avenue,Mt. Vernon place, Massachusetts avenue and H street,to and a little beyond the eastern city limits, or fromFifteenth street N. W. to and across Fifteenth street N.E. The road is nearly straight, and practically flat, thesteepest grade being about 2 per cent. The short piecesof curve track on the hne aggregate 349 feet of double these engines rated on 80 pounds, cut-off at one-fifth, with54 revolutions, is 220-horse-power. Their actual poweris far beyond the requirements of the road for some timeto come, but all parts are proportioned for substitution ofcylinders of larger diameter (up to 26 inches) whendesired. A Weston automatic engine furnishes the powerfor the light plant. The fly wheels are 24 feet in dia- 142 ^fiJwdS(aJiii^^3^ meter, and each weighs 60,000 pounds. The enginefoundations are of brick in cement mortar. The building is surmounted with an octagonal brickstack, 100 feet high,

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