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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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FIG 11.—STANDARD CAR FOR CITY SERVICE—HOLYOKE FIG. 12.—MT. TOM ELECTRIC CAR halfway between the two cities, the crew are part of theSpringfield Railway force. As soon as the car crosses thedividing line, they act under orders of the Holyoke StreetRailway Company. The rolling stock for the through carsis provided by both companies. The Holyoke system proper radiates from the city in all eral Electric generator. The engines are operated in con-nection with Deane condensers. As a usual thing two en-gines are used at all times, and one additional for heavyriding. The company employs forty-nine open cars fordays of heavy traffic, and from this number all the waydown to thirty for ordinary traffic. AUGDST, 1898.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 421
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FIG. 14.—GENERATORS—HOLYOKE POWER STATION 422 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIV. No. 8. Outside of the Mt. Tom line the maximum grade is J\per cent. The track construction is mostly 56-tb. 4 j-in. T-rail, but last year a 70-lb. 7-in. T-rail was employed. Thisis laid on chestnut ties. Formerly kyanized wood tieswere employed, but it was thought that the chestnut tieswill last as long as the rail, and so will be amply sufficientfor the purpose. Opposite joints are laid as a rule. The special work is mainly of the Wharton type, thoughsome Johnson special work is employed. Tie rods areused throughout the entire system. Crown 0000 bondsare used throughout, connected to No. o supplementary.In the city iron poles are employed, but outside woodenpoles are the rule. Both southern pine and chestnut polesare used, but the latter are considered more satisfactory. A view of one of the standard open cars of the companyis shown in Fig. 11. It is the ten bench open type. The count of their noisel

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