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English: «Car house — Tacoma Railway and Motor Company» (original caption)

Identifier: streetrailwayrev02amer (find matches)
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
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PLAN OF CURVE—CABLE LINE—TACOMA RAILWAY AND MOTOR COMPANY. Sextons Manufacturing Company, of Erie, Pa., and oneof 150-horse-power made by Geo. H. Corliss, of Provi-dence, R. I. The belting used is 54 inch perforated,made by Chas. A. Schieren & Co., of New York, andis giving splendid service. The electric plant consists of compound wound dyna-mos and is the largest west of the Mississippi river. also made by the Pullmans, two equipped with r5-horse-power Edison Motors. The track guage is 3 feet 6inches, with 40 and 45 pound girder rails, which weremade by the Cambria Iron & Steel Manufacturing Com-pany, of Johnstown, Pa. The cable is 10,000 feet in length, has 160 wires in it,and has a diameter of i/ inches.
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The 175 K. W. generators are the largest size made bythe Edison Company, and were the first ones to be sentout from the manufactory at Schenectady. The electric road is built upon cedar stringers 12x3inches, on which ties 5x8 inches are set 3 feet apart; andover all 3 inch plank are laid between the rails to bring There are tlve grip cars and two trailers. The Icngtof the former is 14 feet and they seat 20 passengers; thelength of the latter 24 feet and their seating capacity, 50. The speed of the cable is 7 miles per hour; and themaximum grade 15 per cent. The cost of the road permile was $100,000. The track is paved with block stone V2 and the cars run i8 hours per day. The slot rails weigh45 pounds. The yokes are set 5 feet apart ordinarih,and 3 feet on crossings; and are of cast iron. The conduit is 3 feet 6 inches deep over all; the depthof the conduit proper being 2 feet 4 inches, and is madeof concrete with cast iron yokes embedded

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date QS:P,+1892-01-15T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1892-01-15T00:00:00Z/11
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(anon.): “Tacoma, Washington, Railway and Motor Company : A magnificent plant — From one-mule cars to palace cable and electrics in three years — What the company has done for Tacoma” The Street Railway Review 2:1 (1892.01.15): p.11

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