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Identifier: streetrailwayjo101894newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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ainteda light buff. October, 1894.) THE STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 643 McKeesport, Pa., are used. Roebling trolley wire andNo. 0000, feeders supplied by Holmes, Booth & Hayden,are used, together with H. W. Johns overhead material,and Whitney car wheels. Two interior views of the station are given inFigs. 1 and 2. It is located at Wissahickon, close to theSchuylkill River and on the side of a steep hill. Coalis received from a siding of the Philadelphia & ReadingRailroad, and is dumped directly into a storage vault,from which it is admitted to the boiler room as required.The boiler room equipment consists of four 100 H. p., up-right tubular boilers supplied by the Stearns Manufactur-ing Company, of Erie, Pa., and one eighty horse power,upright tubular boiler manufactured by Henry Warden,of Germantown Junction, Philadelphia. Pea coal is used,costing delivered about $2.55 per long ton. The engine room contains both railway generatorsand arc light dynamos, the railway equipment being
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American arc light machines which have been fitted withBall armatures. The switchboard is located at the endof the station and is supplied with General Electric light-ning arresters. One steam main, seven inches in diame-ter, and covered with H. W. Johns asbestos packing, ex-tends the entire length of the room and supplies the steamto the engine equipment. Schieren belts are employed. A considerable extent of territory is supplied witharc lights from the station, including Manayunk, Rox-borough, Wissahickon, Falls, and all of East FairmountPark as far as Green Street, Philadelphia. A total of 365lights are operated from the station, and one circuit isfourteen miles in extent. The railway plant is owned and operated by the Wis-sahickon Electric Passenger Railway Company, with thefollowing officers: President, P. P. Liebert; vice-president,Isaac Wilde; secretary and treasurer, John Flanagan;superintendent, James C. Padley. The lighting plant is owned by theWissahickon Electric Light Com

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  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:666
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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