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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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one DESTRUCTIVE HURRICANE IN SOUTHERN NEW JERSEY On Sept. 16 one of the most severe wind storms ever ex-perienced in Southern New Jersey completely demolished thenew car house and power house of the Atlantic City & Subur-ban Railway Company at Pleasantville, N. J. The lines fromAtlantic City to Pleasantville were completed but a few daysbefore the storm, and, unfortunately, only one of the sevennew Brill cars (semi-convertible and Narragansett) was run-ning. The other cars were standing in the car house when thewind blew in the walls, and lifted the heavy slate roof and thesupporting girders and dropped the mass upon the cars. Aremarkable feature of the wreck was that not a car was in-jured below the roof, not even to the springing of a side post.Several other cars were to be shipped from the Brill works afew days previously; luckily they were delayed, and thus es-caped. Other fortunate circumstances were that the Custodischimney stack remained standing, the machinery in the power
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CAR HOUSE AT PLEASANTVILLE, N. J., WRECKED BY WIND STORM 500-hp Westinghouse cross-compound engine, all condensing,have heretofore carried the load, about 750 kw, requiring two500-hp and one 250-hp Sterling boilers. With the turbine alonecarrying the same load, one of the 500-hp boilers is cut out. A 5000-kw Curtis turbine has recently been installed at theCommonwealth station, Chicago, where provision has beenmade for fourteen similar units. This machine, the first of itssize, has been operated continuously for several periods ofeight hours each on a water rheostat load of 5000 kw, and willshortly be put in commercial service. On account of waterleaks around the condenser tubes no reliable economy testshave yet been made. The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will make an effort tocapture some of the local business between Indianapolis andRichmond. Since the opening of the interurban line the localbusiness has decreased to such an extent that the local pas-senger trains have hardly made

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