Identifier: streetrailwayrev14amer (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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VIEWS OF CAR GATE AND BUFFER. 0.\KI.A.ND TRANSIT CONSOLIDATED. this construction is also shown from which it will be seen that thebearing rail is laid with its head touching that of the main or trackrail. The function of the former rail is to carry the false or outerflanges of bad or grooved wheels, as it prevents the battering which struction, and the ferry system tracks are 14 ft. from center tocenter. The power plant of the San Francisco, Oakland & San Jose Rail-way is equipped with eight soo-h. p. boilers fitted with oil burners. May 20, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. These boilers consume 2,500 gallons of oil each twenty-four hours.The generating room contains two direct-connected G. E. generators.The large unit consists of a 2.000-h. p. corliss compound engine, 295 were ordered from the St. Louis Car Co., the railway com-pany is constantly building new cars for its local traffic, turningout a new forty-foot city car with a capacity for 100 to 150 people. l^-E ^W t a lb
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ROADBED AND BKACKKT CONSTRUCTION ON PIER. OAKL.\ND. direct connected to an Sso-kw. generator, running at a speed of 8r. p. m. The snfall machine is a i,ooo-h. p. corliss compound en-gine direct-connected to a 6so-k\v. generator, running at 100 r. p. m. The day load is carried by the small generator alone,the large one being used only when e.xtra power is re-quired during the morning and evening hours ofheavy traffic. .\ storage battery plant of 264 cells, hav-ing a capacity of 1,000 ampere hours, is used in con-nection with the generators to take care of any sharppeaks in the load. The diflferent lines of the two sys-tems use approximately 8,000 kw. per 24 hours. The present plans of the company call for a largeamount of construction work during the coming sum-mer. AI>out 100 miles of the track arc to be built atleast, and more than this if it can l>e accomplished.The heavy rains of the past winter have not affectodm the least the ferry system, as all of the trains havel)cen on

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