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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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a smokingcompartment. There is also one work car, which can be con- April 25, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 625 verted into a Taunton snow-plow. Four more passenger carshave been bought. The track construction is excellent. Gravel ballast is ob-tainable along the road. Ballast has been laid to depth of from8 ins. to 2 ft., according to conditions. The rail is 70 lbs.,standard T. The special work was furnished by the Paige IronWorks, of Chicago- A good idea of the track and overheadwork may be obtained from the accompanying cut. The trolleyline is bracket construction. One sub-station is 10 miles north of the Beloit power house,and the other is 11 miles south of the Beloit power house. Ahigh-tension line, consisting of three No. 6 copper wires, sup-ported on Hemingray glass insulators, runs to each station.Two No. 00 trolley wires run the entire length of the line. Inaddition to this a No. 0000 feeder extends about 5 miles eachway from each sub-station. The road is bonded with No. 00
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POWER HOUSE AND CAR SHED bonds, made by the American Steel & Wire Company, and thisis supplmented in the power house with No. 0000 bonds. The power station and car house are at Beloit. The generat-ing equipment consists of two units, each comprising an AUis-Chalmers cross-compound condensing engine, 20 ins. and 40ins. X 48 ins., direct connected to a (jeneral Electric 540-kw,370-volt, 25-cycle generator, running 94 r. p. m. One of theseunits is sufficient to run the road under ordinary conditions.The station is equipped with Wheeler condensers, and con-densing water is taken from a well sunk in the gravel near thepower house. There is a large creek near the power house andwater from the stream seeps rapidly through the gravel. The boiler equipment consists of three Cahall water-tubeboilers, each rated at 350 hp. It was expected that two ofthese boilers would have to be operated to carry the load, butit has been found that one is all that is necessary, and it is noteven necessary t

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