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Identifier: streetrailwayjo111895newy (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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between Gait and Hespeler. The company hasrecently bought a park midway between Preston andHespeler, which has proved a great attraction in summer. The line is nine miles in length, and is single track,with sidings. The ma.ximum grade is five per cent, forone hundred yards, and the sharpest curve is seventy-three feet radius where the sidings go into factory yards.The roadbed is of steel T-rail, laid on cedar and tamarackties, 7 in. and 8 in., and spaced two feet apart. Theswitches are of the regular railrcjad pattern, with railroadsignal apparatus. The overhead cunstructicin is of No. o trcdley wire withNo. 00 weather-proof insulated wire for the entire lengthof the road. The poles are of cedar, twenty-eight feet long,and placed six feet in the ground. Five telephones areplaced at different points on the line for communicationwith the companys offices and power station. The power station is a stone building 150 ft. .x 50 ft., onstone foundations, with a brick chimney 90 ft. in height
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VIEW IN PARK, BRANTFORD.and 10 tt. X ro It. at the l)ase. The station is located ncai generator, the former built by the Westinghouse Electric &Manufacturing Company, and the latter by the CanadianGeneral Electric Company. The switchboard is of slate,with Westinghouse and General Electric appliances.The two generators can be used singly or in multiple. The car house is a wooden building roofed with iron,150 ft. X 60 ft., and adjoins the powerhouse. There are four motor and three trail cars for passengerservice. One of the motor cars is a combination baggagecar thirty-seven feet long, with double trucks (see illus-tration). Taylor trucks are used with Westinghouse No.3 and G. E. 800 and G. E. 1,200 motors. St.Thomas car wheels are used, TiT, in. in diameter, 3 1-2 in.tread and i 1-8 in. flange. The company also owns a snow-plow and a tower-wagon, together with the Baldwin loco-motive and freight cars above mentioned. The officers of the company are as follows: president,Thomas Todd

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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
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  • bookleafnumber:90
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