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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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the samefirms make, for use in con-junction with the above light-ing dynamos, for 500-voltpressure. The switchboard was builtby the contractors, and iscomposed of fifteen panels,each supported independentlyon an iron frame. The boardconsists of a main stationpanel, two generator panels,five feeder panels, one Boardof Trade panel, and six otherpanels for lighting, etc. The stack, which is of steel,is 135 ft. in height and 7 ft. internal diameter, and is a notable landmark for many milesaround. The base is built in a substantial manner, and is fin-ished square on the outside, massive stone blocks being pro-vided at the top of base to form the foundation for the cir-cular part of the chimney. divided into two distinct types; thirty are of the single-deck,single-truck, open type to seat thirty-two passengers, andtwenty are of the single-deck, single-truck combination type toseat forty passengers. The rolling stock was built by theUnited Electric Car Company, of Preston. The car bodies are
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INTERIOR OF POWER STATION mounted on Brill 21-E trucks, and each are equipped with twoD.K. 25-b motors. The controllers are of the Dick-Kerr DB-i,form C, metallic shield blow-out pattern. The cars are fittedwith Hudson & Bowring lifeguards. The three double-truck freight cars are each mounted on 152 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXVII. No. 4. Brill 27-G trucks, with four D.K. 25-b motors. They are in-tended for use of a double purpose, that of conveying freightand hauling freight cars. The general arrangement of the bodyis such as to provide a self-contained car with divided slidingdoors on each side, which may be securely locked up, and avestibule canopy at each end as the platform for the drivers.The fifteen single-truck freight cars are equipped in a similarmanner to the passenger cars. They are 12 ft. in length and6 ft. 6 ins. in width. These cars are for general use for theconveyance of various classes of goods up to 6 tons in weight.The frame is made of mild steel channels,

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