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Identifier: streetrailwayrev02amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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wires are 16 feet high ordinarily and 21 feet high at rail-way crossings. CJn the electric lines the overhead wire system is used,the poles for the trolley wires being of wood. The elec-tric rolling stock consists of 26 cars, 16 of which arePullman cars run by two 15-horse-powcr Sprague motorseach, and ten 28 foot combination (open and shutj cars,
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PLAN OF CURVE—CABLE LINE—TACOMA RAILWAY AND MOTOR COMPANY. Sextons Manufacturing Company, of Erie, Pa., and oneof 150-horse-power made by Geo. H. Corliss, of Provi-dence, R. I. The belting used is 54 inch perforated,made by Chas. A. Schieren & Co., of New York, andis giving splendid service. The electric plant consists of compound wound dyna-mos and is the largest west of the Mississippi river. also made by the Pullmans, two equipped with r5-horse-power Edison Motors. The track guage is 3 feet 6inches, with 40 and 45 pound girder rails, which weremade by the Cambria Iron & Steel Manufacturing Com-pany, of Johnstown, Pa. The cable is 10,000 feet in length, has 160 wires in it,and has a diameter of i/ inches.

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