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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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have charge of the grantingof franchises in municipalities. He believes that this power NEW ENGLAND TROLLEY TRIPS The passenger department of the Bos-ton & Northern and Old Colony StreetRailway Companies has issued two sepa-rate trolley publications, one covering theOld Colony system and entitled Trips b\-Trolley. and the other covering the Bos-ton & Northern and entitled TrolleyTrips. The feature of the publicationsthis year is a large four-colored map ofEastern Massachusetts east of Worcester,Southern New Hampshire and NorthernRhode Island, showing not only all thetrolley lines of these companies, but alltrolley lines in the district, as well as allthe parks, groves and other inland andshore pleasure resorts. The map forms the inside of bothfolders, while the rest of the space is devoted to schedulesshowing the routes, distances, fares and mileage on the vari-ou lines. Everything is arranged in as condensed a form aspossible. The covers of the two folders are in colors. That
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INTERIOR OF THE IlTTSFIELD STATION, ENGINES SHOWING THE VERTICAL should l)e vested in a disinterested body of men with powerto act after public hearings have been held. d-^-* The Cincinnati Board has decided to give commissions asprivate policemen to all traction company inspectors. June 22, 1907.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 1103 CYLINDER LUBRICATION BY W. H. BOOTH If oil lubrication is still to be employed in modern steamengines, may not some exception be taken to the very usualcustom as to the feeding of valve oil into the steam so thatit is thoroughly atomized in the steam ? With moderntemperatures and superheating, the steam at the entranceto the engine is hotter than it is at any point on its passagethrough the engine, for as it travels towards the exhaustit becomes gradually colder from loss of heat by radiation,by the heat interchanges between the cylinder and the steamand by the ordinary effect of expansion. The object oflubrication is to produce smooth running. When oil ismixed

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