Identifier: streetrailwayjo301907newy (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
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A PICTURESQUE SPOT ON THE EVANSVILLE & EASTERNTRACTION SYSTEM direction. The feeders continue at this size to points 5miles from the station where they are reduced in size to350,000 circ. mil. These smaller feeders are carried towithin 1 mile of the ends of the line.
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ONE OF THE TWO STEEL BRIDGES ON THE EVANSVILLE TRACTION SYSTEM of the line, at Hartfield. It is a brick structure, divided intoa boiler and engine room by a transverse wall. The boilerroom contains two 300-hp B. & W. boilers served by onesteel stack. In the engine room are installed two 375-kw REPAIR SHOPS A brick repair shop adjacent to thepower house at Hatfield containsthree storage tracks and space alongone wall for the installation of re-quisite machinery. CAR EQUIPMENT The road is equipped with five pas-senger cars built by the AmericanCar Company. The cars are 46 ft.long over all, 9 ft. wide and seat forty-eight people. The inside finish is darkoak. All are built with a small bag-gage compartment at one end and areintended for double-end operation.They are equipped with four West-inghouse 101-J motors of 50 hp each,and these are mounted on 21 E-iBrill trucks. K-14 controllers areused. The cars are provided withWestinghouse Traction Brake Com-pany straight air brakes, and Pe

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