The Street railway journal (1898) (14761636485)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo141898newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries



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REAR VIEW OF ENGINES further extensions. The dimensions of the engine cylin-ders are 18 ins. and 30 ins. x 40 ins. stroke. They make86 r.p.m. at a pressure of 150 lbs. and both cylinders aresteam jacketed. The Richardson-Rowland patent tripvalve gear is employed. The fly wheels are 17 ft. in diam-eter and weigh twenty-six tons. The rims are 37 ins.broad and over them run leather belts to the generators. 530 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIV. No. 9. The electrical equipment consists of three General Elec-tric multipolar railway generators of 400 h.p. each. Theswitchboard is situated at one end of room, and is placed
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LAYING TRACK ON CONCRETE BED on a raised platform in a conspicuous position. It is of islate, covered with black lacquer and contains three gen-erators, three feed and one main generator panel. The The rolling stock is mounted on thirty-eight Peckhamextra-strong cantilever trucks and three Brill trucks, allsupplied with General Electric 800 motors. The car bodies which have beenbuilt in the companysshops present an exceed-ingly handsome appear-ance. They are of threetypes—the open, the com-bination open and closed,and closed cars. The lat-ter were made by splicingtwo 16-ft. cars, and are ex-pected to give severalyears service. The othertypes in length measure 29ft. and 29 ft., and are madefrom Queensland woods,principally spotted gum,mottled and yellow pine,yellowwood and cedar.The climate of Brisbane,which corresponds some-what to that of southernCalifornia, makes the com-bination car the most serviceable. The illustrations showthese three types of cars. A street sprinkler and meta