The Street railway journal (1902) (14574993129)

Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (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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FIG. 8. -SECTION OF STAND-ARD T-RAIL Street Railway Journal FIG. 9.—SECTION OF CONDUIT SLOT,BUDA-PEST on the Haarmann rails and slot rails of the side conduitused in Buda-Pest. The Haarmann rails used on theStadtbahn (surface) line, from whom the accompanying wheels are of small diameter, to economize height in thecar. The Budapester Elektrischebahn also used chillediron wheels exclusively for its surface cars. All the chilled Used with one motorper ear only Standard for surface «arswith 2 motors
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FIG. 6.—SECTIONS OF ALL TYPES OF WHEELS USED ON BUDA-PEST STADTBAHN AND UNDERGROUND RAILWAY sections were obtained, through the courtesy of Mr.Stromszky, chief engineer of the company, have a depthof groove of 26 mm and a width on straight track of 35mm and on curves of 45 mm. In Fig. 6, A shows thecomplete section of a wheel for a surface car on the iron wheels used by all the roads in Buda-Pest are obtainedfrom Ganz & Company, and are of the Griffin type. The wheels on the underground railway are 650 mm indiameter, and the average life of the steel wheels on thisline, when they were employed, was about 120,000 km with December 6, 1902.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 905 two turnings clown of the tire. Chilled iron wheels, how-ever, have been in use since August, 1899, and a recordof all of these wheels (ninety in number) which have beenemployed from that time to Jan. r, 1902, shows that allare still in good condition, so that their total life is yet in-determinable. The highest reco