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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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rm in a conspicuous position. It is of islate, covered with black lacquer and contains three gen-erators, three feed and one main generator panel. The The rolling stock is mounted on thirty-eight Peckhamextra-strong cantilever trucks and three Brill trucks, allsupplied with General Electric 800 motors. The car bodies which have beenbuilt in the companysshops present an exceed-ingly handsome appear-ance. They are of threetypes—the open, the com-bination open and closed,and closed cars. The lat-ter were made by splicingtwo 16-ft. cars, and are ex-pected to give severalyears service. The othertypes in length measure 29ft. and 29 ft., and are madefrom Queensland woods,principally spotted gum,mottled and yellow pine,yellowwood and cedar.The climate of Brisbane,which corresponds some-what to that of southernCalifornia, makes the com-bination car the most serviceable. The illustrations showthese three types of cars. A street sprinkler and metaland tool car are under course of construction.
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STANDARD COMBINATION CAR instruments are the General Electric Company standardtype. The boiler room is 18 ft. lower than that of engine roomand contains 1200 h.p. of Babcock & Wilcox boilers inthree batteries of two boilers each. The working pressureof boilers is 150 lbs. Additional space is reserved forthree more batteries. The chimney is 150 ft. high, with a7-ft. flue. Two duplex Worthington feed pumps 9 ins. x5)- ins. x 10 ins. stroke are installed. Water is obtained from the city mains and nine irontanks with a capacity of 18,000 gallons are placed justback of boiler room. All feed water is passed through aRailton & Campbell filter. Coal is delivered from rail-way trucks into bunkers immediately back of boiler room. The water tower for cooling condensing water is awooden tower 17 ft. x 17 ft. and 31 ft. high. It containsrows of wooden slats placed 2 ins. apart in two tiers.Under these are four fans worked by a 25 h.p. motor. Thehot water pumped to the top of tower passes t

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