Identifier: streetrailwayrev02amer (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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CROSS SECTION—ENGINE ROOM. GROUND PLAN. and contains 229 tubes 14 feet long and 2^^ inches indiameter. In order to locate the power-house most advatageouslyfor the lines to be driven, it was necessary to place it ina district where real estate is very high,—hence the aim Conductors are complaining these days about theunusually large amount of pennies which are beincroffered. The supply is accounted for in the fact, that atthis season of the year thousands of childrens banks areare opened, and the savings of a year put in circulation 5^pM^x^^j^^g?V)N-:^<f^<^l,
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LONGITUDINAL ELEVATION. has been to secure the greatest available amount of powerin the least possible space, and in a building but one storyhigh—hence the upright type of engines and boilers anda direct drive to avoid counter-shafting. Traveling craneswill run over both boilers and generators. The convenient and economocial equipment of theboiler room is now occupying a great deal more attentionthan formerly, and in this plant has been carefulh workedout by the Field Engineering Company, of New York,who will have charge of the installation of this branch ofthe machinery. The fuel is received directly in the rear of the power-house, at the companys dock and is elevated to thestorage bin, from whence it is drawn by gravity asrequired, and allowed to drop into the furnaces. CROSS SECTION — BOILER HOUSE. THE STREET CAR BACTERIA. EOCAL physicians in a number of smaller town aremuch exercised as to the ventilation and fumigation ofstreet cars. The ventilation is subject to the will oft

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