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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radeis automatically coupled to it. When it reaches the topit is automatically uncoupled without stopping. On thedown trip the car slows and is automatically coupledwithout, stopping so that it is impossible for the car todescend without the counterweight. At the bottom thecar must stop for the conductor to disconnect. Thecounterweights are made about equal to the weight ofthe empty cars. For the illustrations accompanying thisdescription we are indebted to the Engineering News. STREETERS IN GERMANY. STREET car horses in Germany command a priceequivalent to $250 in our money. They arelargely imported from the surrounding countries,and the question has been raised as to whether they couldnot be profitably shipped from the States. The margin,however, will not be found to be large, as the ocean freightNew York to Hamburg is $50 per head in lots of notless than seventy-five; and to this must be added expenseof erecting deck stalls; feed in transit; $20 passage Upper Sfafjcn Lofrer Srarian
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many features which commend it. Our readers willawait with interest the result of the experiment, andmeanwhile join the Review in the honest wish and expec-tation that Mr. Smithman may have no occasion to besick of his well. Another system of counterbalancing weights for help-ing up grades is in use on the Ranier avenue line atSeattle, Washington, and also on the Front street line inPortland. It is the invention of J. P. F. Kuhlmann, ofSeatde. The plan adopted by the two roads is slightlydifferent. At Seattle the conduit and track on which thecounter weights run is put directly under the surface ofthe roadbed and the slot is at one side. In Portland theslot is in the middle and the counterweight conduit isbeneath the railway ties on a second set of ties. Therope of course passes through the small conduit, passingover pulleys at the ends, as shown in the longitudinal sec-tion. At Seattle pneumatic buffers are provided to pre- mo

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