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Identifier: streetrailwayjo231904newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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hed are located the hydraulic accumulator and pumps whichoperate the aprons. Rooms are provided in the building forsleeping quarters of the boat crews, for the superintendentsoffice, repair shop, etc. FOG BELL AND SIGNAL LIGHTS The fog question is one of the most serious problems to besolved in the navigation of San Francisco Bay, the mist rollingin from the ocean being at times so dense that accidents arealmost unavoidable, as there are so many ferryboats and othercraft on the Bay. On Goat Island, near which the ferryboats rated speed of the motor, the bell is struck ten times a minute.The bell itself is of special construction, and weighs 1640 lbs. On the piers end, at each side of the slip, is a pier headlight,also shown in Fig. 8. Each lamp has seven panes of glass.For the illumination of each headlight fifteen 32-cp incan-descent lamps are installed, in the usual multiple-series railwayarrangement. CONSTRUCTION OF PIERThe pier is a double-track wooden trestle, constructed so that
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Splltc.l (0 piles ivithUbosit spikes FIG. 11.—TROLLEY POLE CONSTRUCTION ON EMERYVILLEWHARF the rails will be 7 ft. 9 ins. above high water, and 15 ft. 9 ins.above low water. It has a uniform width of 30 ft. throughout,except at the outer end, where it broadens out for the terminaltracks and ferry depot. From the middle of the boat slip tothe west end of the subway under the Southern Pacific tracksat the waters edge, the pier has a length of 16,240 ft., while

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo231904newy
  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:264
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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