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English: «Cross section of cable track» (original caption)

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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the largest size made bythe Edison Company, and were the first ones to be sentout from the manufactory at Schenectady. The electric road is built upon cedar stringers 12x3inches, on which ties 5x8 inches are set 3 feet apart; andover all 3 inch plank are laid between the rails to bring There are tlve grip cars and two trailers. The Icngtof the former is 14 feet and they seat 20 passengers; thelength of the latter 24 feet and their seating capacity, 50. The speed of the cable is 7 miles per hour; and themaximum grade 15 per cent. The cost of the road permile was $100,000. The track is paved with block stone V2 and the cars run i8 hours per day. The slot rails weigh45 pounds. The yokes are set 5 feet apart ordinarih,and 3 feet on crossings; and are of cast iron. The conduit is 3 feet 6 inches deep over all; the depthof the conduit proper being 2 feet 4 inches, and is madeof concrete with cast iron yokes embedded in it, andcarry 66y,, pound rails and 45 pound slot rails. WAGES IN BOSTON.
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CROSS SECTION OF CABLE TRACK. The electric power is supplied by three 65 K. W.Edison generators and four 155 K. W. Edison generators. The entire cost of the road, including its franchises, andreal estate, amounts to $1,242,135.47, and constitutes aplant which may well be envied by many an older andlarger city. The service is excellent, the management

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Date before 15 January 1892
date QS:P,+1892-01-15T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1892-01-15T00:00:00Z/11
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(anon.): “Tacoma, Washington, Railway and Motor Company : A magnificent plant — From one-mule cars to palace cable and electrics in three years — What the company has done for Tacoma” The Street Railway Review 2:1 (1892.01.15): p.12

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