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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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iove the railsThe trolley supports on the viaduct described later, are made oftwo inch tubular iron and are set so as to give free passage of carsof all widths. The substations are similar in general design to those on theWestern Ohio Ry. The buildings are 74 x 38 ft. in floor area andhave a front elevation of 24 ft. On the first floor provision is made facturing Co., Niles, O., and are equipped with 36-in. Schoen solidsteel wheels, Peckham trucks, Westinghouse type K 14 coniiNational Electric Co. air brakes and there arc four moti50-h.p. capacity each. A few months ago the Western Ohio Ry. inaugurated a p;freight service on all of its lines. This will immedately be exbto the Lima-Findlay route. The plan now followed by the company and the one the management desires to continue is to confinethis business to a one trip service. The trains leave the terminalsearly in the morning and make the round trip over each division.In order to better handle this traffic two trailers constructed on
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ON THE NEW LIMA-FINDLAY DIVISION—WESTEKN OHIO RAILWAY CO. for a ticket office, baggage and waiting rooms, and living apart-ments for the attendant. In the machine room, which is 40 x 30 ft.in size, are two Westinghouse rotaries with the necessary step-down transformers. On the Lima-Findlay & Toledo Ry. there aretwo sub-stations such as shown in the plan drawing. One is lo-cated at Beaver Dam and the other at Rawson. Each is built ofbrick on concrete foundations and much care was given to the sym-metry of their construction so they might prove attractive to lookat, as well as serviceable. Current is brought to the sub-stations on a three-phase high ten-sion line from the Western Ohio Ry. power station located at St.Marys. The rotaries are of 200-kw. capacity each. The line pressureis 33,000 volts. The high-tension wires of copper tun directly from the pole lineto a strain bracket securely bolted to the brick walls, thence through12-in. vitrified brick pipe to the high tension swi

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