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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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er that the road might be started beforethe completion nf the sub-station at Dixon, thedirect current feeders have been installed as fol-lows: From (he power house to the end of tlu-No. o city trolley, and the beginning of tboNo. 000 interurban copper, 500,000-c. 111, stranclcilcopper weather proof cable has been strung on glassfeeder insulators. From here east bare cable isused. The first section is 2^4 miles of 3.io.oao-c. ni.copper. The next section, three miles of ,!CK),ooo-c. m..and the last section which reaches a point aboutthree miles west of Dixon Jil,(ioo-c. m. in sectionalarea. The power house is a brick building .;j x 160 ft.in size, with a fire proof partition wall between theengine and boiler rooms. This building is in thecity of Sterling adjacent to the Chicago & North-western Ry. and is located on the bank of the Rock River. Theboiler room contains two 300-h.p. Stirling boilers, surmounted by a•iteel slack exicnrlinp im ft. nlmvc the grates. Water for boiler feed
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STANDARD INTERURBAN CAK 862 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. (Vol.. XIV, No. II and condensing ;inr;ii>si>i i* obtainid from the Rock River. Onejo.<42 in. i8go pallorn Riynolds-Corliss engine is now installed andiiperating tlie mad. Inil pnivisi<in lias lieen made for a seoind siniilar engine. The engine is belled to a Stanley Electric Mannfactnring Co sS. K. C. standard si.x-polc, three phase rotary converter nf 300 kw.capacity. This rotary is run at present as a direct current gen-erator. The switchboard is of the S. K. C. standard railway type erty is shown in one of the engravings. The rolling stock of theroad consists of four internrhan cars bnilt by the St. Louis Car Co..and fitted with four G. E. 70 motors and Qiristensen air brakes.Ibere are also six single truck cars for city service and one doubletruck motor car for baggage and general use. Hourly service is maintained between Sterling and IJi.xon withtwo cars, which permits a lay over of about ten minutes at eachend. Loca

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