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Identifier: streetrailwayjo311908newy (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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SPECIAL CROSSING FOR NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE crossings varying from 9 ft. to 14 ft. and from 560 lb. to1680 lb. each. There are sixty-three rails, all cast manganese steel.Their average length is 15 ft., the lengths being regulatedby the necessary joints, but where possible 20-ft. rails are jMarcji 7, 1908.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 401 used, so that Newcastle now holds the record for the longestcast rails. All the rails are cast straight and curved toradius required. A special feature is that all the straightrails are manganese steel. It is believed this is the first timethese have been used in a large junction of this class. The chief aim of the city engineer of Newcastle was to GERMAN AUTOMATIC AIR BRAKE SYSTEM FOR STREETRAILWAYS The operation of trail cars on street railways is verycommon in Germany and consequently a great deal of at-tention has been given in that country to street-car braking.
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OoiipUng DIAGRAM SHOWING PARTS OF AUTOMATIC AIR-BRAKE SYSTEM ARRANGED FOR ONE MOTOR CAR AND TRAILER avoid joints, and this has been done to an unusual extent,though Messrs. Allen claim that they are prepared still fur-ther to reduce the number of joints on a future occasion.The chief features are therefore: The use of manganesesteel throughout; compound work; extra long crossings,designed to couple to each other, which, with one exception,do connect to each other, and to the switch on the inner ofthe three Y curves; inside curves coupled to each otherand also to the center crossings. It is intended to put thejob together on spare land and haul it bodily into position; The latest development along these lines is the automaticair-brake system made by the Siemens-Schuckert Works,

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  • bookid:streetrailwayjo311908newy
  • 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:412
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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