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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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y a haul of over 50 miles. By the time theplant is completed the company will have handled over 600cars of material. Three of the larger buildings of the plantare illustrated herewith, giving some idea of the size of thepieces handled. The large tank shown in the foreground ex-tended over two flat cars. In the operation of the plant thebeets will be unloaded from bottom dump gondola cars intobins by means of overhead trestles. The company will handlea large proportion of the ingoing raw material and a consider-able portion of the finished product. It will be necessary tomaintain a locomotive at this point practically all the time forswitching purposes; and as it may be used at night, when theplant is shut down, and because of the undesirability of string-ing and maintaining expensive overhead lines in the ratherintricate yards, the company decided to purchase a steam loco-motive for this work. The announcement that the companyproposed buying such a locomotive recently gave rise to the
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HANDLING LIVE STOCK FOR EXPORT ON THE TOLEDO & WESTERN RAILWAY report that it had abandoned the use of electric locomotives inits freight service, but there is no truth in this. In the erection work on the beet sugar plant, the companylaid the tracks and is furnishing power for motors used forvarious purposes, such as a sawmill, crane, etc. It also fur-nishes power to several industries, including a stave mill anda machine shop. Several of the elevators above mentionedare not elevators in the strict sense of the word, but the September 2, 1905.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 327 grain is fed into the cars by means of motor-operated blowers.Current is furnished to industrial establishments from thetrolley circuit at 5 cents per kw-hour. At first the companyinstalled meters, but this was found too expensive, and now itmeters and inspects each circuit about once a month and basesthe charge accordingly. When the road started it had no interchange of businesswith the steam roads, but gradual

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