File:The Street railway journal (1900) (14758427895).jpg

Identifier: streetrailwayjo161900newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors:
Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
pment consists of two horizontaltandem compound condensing side-crank engines madeby the Robb Engineering Company, Amherst, N. S.,directly connected to two Westinghouse 150-kw generators,the voltage at full load being 550 volts. The entire electricequipment of the power station was furnished by the West-inghouse Company. The steam, exhaust and water piping,with valves and fittings, were furnished by the Robb En- the Mange broken out was 12^ ins. long, and was brokenoff at a point 3 miles from where the accident occurred. The car was running 20 miles per hour on a 1000-ft.curve, when it left the rails. The motorman applied thebrakes, and stopped the car after it ran 150 ft. on the ties.The car had come to a stop before it turned over, and al-though there were thirty-four people aboard no one wasseriously hurt, except a boy who jumped from the rearplatform just as the car turned over; he was caught underthe corner post and killed. The irregular bend in the track, as shown in the engrav-
Text Appearing After Image:
STANDARD 28-FT. MOTOR CAR, CUBAN ELECTRIC CO. gineering Company. The boiler equipment consists ofone battery, 400 hp, of Cahall vertical boilers furnishedthrough Thayer & Company. The power-station build-ing is of steel construction, and was furnished by the Rit-ter-Conley Company. Two iron tanks are used, having acapacity of 10,000 gals., for the purpose of supplying thewater for condensing purposes, these tanks being con-nected to the roofs of the buildings by drips, so as to catchthe rainwater. ing, was caused by throwing over the track after the acci-dent occurred, in order to clear the line. The car itself wasbut slightly injured. The accompanying illustration was furnished by J. B.Crankshaw, engineer of the road. Street Car Building (Stephenson Practice.) An Accident on the Cincinnati, Lawrenceburg- & AuroraStreet Railway BY CHARLES HENRY DAVIS, C. E. The accompanying illustration shows an accident whichtook place on July 4 on the Cincinnati, Lawrenceburg & KALEVIMAG

Note About Images