Electric railway review (1906) (14760353742)

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Title: Electric railway review
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: American Street and Interurban Railway Association
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Wilson Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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announced that the Vtah Light & Railway Company,Salt Lake City. Utah, will begin this summer the erection ofa 10,000-horsepower power plant at the Devils Gate, on prop-erty owned by the Harriman interests, and that its construc-tion will cost about $500,000. to ELECTRIC RAILWAY REVIEW Vol. XIX, No 1. SHOP PRACTICE OF THE ALLEGHENY VALLEY STREETRAILWAY. BY II. V. MENTZEL, MASTER MECHANIC. The Allegheny Valley Street Railway Company operates aninterurban line from Natrona to Aspinwall, Pa., 19 miles, anda local line from Natrona to New Kensington, 7.8 miles. These four local cars, but as the traffic is heavy on Saturday and Sun-day we sometimes need our entire equipment out on the road.On days of heavy travel, we couple our multiple-unit cars,running them in 2-car trains. Frequently three or four extracars are required for special runs during the afternoon andevening. All our repair work is done in the daytime, so that thenight shop men act only as inspectors, except for such light
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Allegheny Shop Practice—Changing Wheels from Single-TruckCar. are both single-track lines laid with 7-inch girder rail. The in-terurban division has a double overhead trolley, which con-struction required no switches at regular turnouts. Believingthat some of the shop practices on this line may be of interestto those engaged in similar work on other lines, I shalldescribe in detail our methods of inspection and repair work. Rolling Stock.The equipment which is now operated includes ten 45-footdouble-truck cars. Each of these cars is equipped with four Allegheny Shop Practice—View of Wheels Being Raised fromRepair Pit. duties as oiling cars, changing trolley wheels and adjustingbrakes. Car House Inspection—Night. Our night men do no armature changing or repairing, unlessit is a trivial repair such as a burned-off motor lead or brushspring or a controller finger. As each car is taken off the road at night it is run over apit by the inspectors and the brakes are adjusted, if necess