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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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land form one division; linesGrant and Pittsburgh another division; lines Croton andWest Side another division, while the line designated Park-is a division by itself. The car miles run on these divisionsare as follows: 1900 1901 ^•o&i?c352,975 333.917 L. &.W. b 181,008 151,965 £• and P 85,690 85,833 ^ark 138,505 132,310 All profiles have a common zero at the junction of allthe lines. Wheels and brake-shoes give the longest mile-age on the Park division and the shortest on the Croton andWest Side. This is accounted for by the flat grades of Parkline and the steep grades of the Croton and West Side,respectively. The variation in mileage of wheels andbrake-shoes between 1900 and 1901 is due to severalcauses, viz.; more stops, slower speed, requiring applica-tion of brakes on flat grades, where it was not necessarybefore, and a slight variation in the composition of shoes.The shoes of 1901 were softer. It appears that a soft shoe 268 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIX. No. 9.
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100 fOOt Stations. Street Ry.Journal 050 900 850 800 750 ( 00 +-<• + 2.5-00 4iT ;.5—0.3% +1.1 + 0.4% +1.3 0.5 + 0.75 +1 5 + 2.0$ Park Line 0 1 0 I I I I 1 I ) 8 ) I 1( 0 11 0 1 20 ! SO 1 0 1! 0 1 iO 1 04 +2.6 00 I .5 + 0.4% —0.9 —1.3 + 2. —1.00$ tO.5 —1.2 +3.000 -3 —0.3% +2.6 —1.4 +.1.4 -0.42<£ + 00 -0 +0.25 Mai loninc rtt wn 0 10 20 30 40 50 00 TO 80 00 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 106 100 foot Stations. Street Ry .Journal PROFILES OF DIFFERENT DIVISIONS OF NEW CASTLE TRACTION COMPANY Mileage and Other Data Car mileage Kw hours Kw hours per car mile Brake shoe mileage Carbon brush Trolley wheel Armature bearing mileage.Wheels Number of renewals made during year Motor bearings Fuse boxes and blocks Lamps Gong hammers Register cord Contact fingers , Lights, glass broken , Bolts used Armatures changed ( ^gwaired Pinions used Gears . ■ Shoe hangers Journal grease Gear Track Sand used 1900—Range 1901-Range MonthiyAverage Maximum Minimum Monthly Average Maximum Mi

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