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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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INTERURBAN CAR length of time between re-charges. The air is compressedin the power station at the middle of the line by an Inger-soll-Sergeant air compressor to a pressure of 300 lbs. persquare inch, and the storage tanks on each car have suf-ficient volume to carry the car two complete round trip*. is unusually large in girth and heavily tapered for its heightof 140 ft., so as to resist the high winds and cyclones com-mon in this part of the country. The station contains fourStirling boilers, one Hamilton-Corliss single-cylinder en-gine, belted to two 300-kw General Electric four-polarsset up in line with each other, and connected by clutchcouplings to the central pulley. This equipment will neces-sarily be increased as the traffic grows, and on account ofthe length of the lines polyphase apparatus will probably beput in. The power station is of sufficient size to accom-modate large extensions. The line was built by the Cleveland Contracting Com-pany, of Cleveland, Ohio, which compa

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