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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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ilar in designand construction to those described for the other part ofthe plant. The cable drums are fifteen feet in diameterfor the fast rope and thirteen feet in diameter for the slowrope. The fifteen foot diameter drums are for operatingthe fast ropes, and the smaller diameter for the slow orloop rope. The fast ropes out of this station run to theterminal vault at the Post Office, back to the 6th Streetvault at 6th Street and Third Avenue, thence to the sta-tion. The slow rope merely operates from the station toand around the balloon loop at the Post Office, and car-ries the cars back to the pick-up point opposite the TimesBuilding, as described in our issue for January,1894. A pair of auxiliary engines has been provided, to-gether with the necessary line shafting, sliding gear, pin-ions, etc., for overhauling either of the cables at will forpurposes of examination, thereby dispensing with thenecessity for using the large engine. The steam service at this plant is composed of six-
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MB BOILER ROOM—BAYARD STREET STATION OF THIRD AVENUE RAILWAY, NEW YORK. line shaft is made up of three sections, each provided witha coupling similar to the ones connecting the engines.The shafts are eighteen inches diameter in the journalsand twenty inches diameter in the swells, and are mountedin extra large pedestals supported on heavy cast iron ad-justing stands, in every respect similar to those that havebeen described and illustrated heretofore in connectionwith the 65th Street power station. The system of driving at this station is by means ofthe Lambeth cotton rope, and there are three sets of driv-ing gear. The small driving drums are three in number;two of these are nine feet in diameter, and one seven feetsix inches in diameter, each containing grooves fortwenty-two two and a quarter inch diameter cotton ropes.They are mounted loosely on the sections of main shaft-ing, and are fitted to engage with the Weston Walkerfriction clutches. The large rope driving drums arethirty

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