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Identifier: streetrailwayj261905newy (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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sizecars. The transfer table itself is 32ft. long, and the transfer pit is 32 ft.1 in. wide. A transfer table of a substantial butvery simple design has been devisedand will be built at the companys ownshop. From one of the accompanyingdrawings, showing the principal de-tails of the new table, it will be seenthat it is made up of six standardtrucks, supporting six twin-bar gird-ers, which carry two 9-in. guard rails.The table is stiffened in the horizontalplane by means of a set of %-m. rods.Power is obtained from a GeneralElectric 800 motor. Each table has aplatform arranged for operating aK-10 controller and breaking lever,the brake lever being connected to a6-in. x J^-in. steel band that grips a21-in. cast-iron split pulley keyed fastto the driving shaft. The transfertable pits are enclosed with concretewalls 5 ft. deep, and the pit is 2 ft.10 ins. from top of rail in the bottomto top of rail in the building. Threetracks on 12-ft. 3 3-16-in. centers and STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 133
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134 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVI. No. 4. of standard 4-ft. 8y2-in. gage form the runs for the tables. From the drawing showing the new layout it is plain thatcars which are brought from any part of the system may enterthe shops from Ferry Street connections and that there is a veryelaborate track layout provided to readily accommodate thiscondition. The out-of-service cars may be placed in storage onthe north or south side of Ferry Street. These out-of-seasoncars will only have to make one trip from any part of the en-tire system to the Plank Road property for overhauling andfor storage, thereby eliminating a great deal of dead mileagenow necessary by reason of repairing the cars at one point andstoring them at the different operating and storage car houses.Inasmuch as many of the cars will go into the shop dead, it isprobable that no trolley wire will be provided for any of thebuildings, but the cars will be moved by a cable on an elec-trically-operated drum placed at the end o

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  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
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  • bookleafnumber:146
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