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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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SHORE KND OF PIER. 0.\KI„\ND TR.ANSIT CONSOLIDATED. ties 6 X 8 in. X 8 ft. and spaced two feet apart. The rails are doublebonded at each joint with Edison-Brown No. 0000 bonds. The en-tire line is heavily ballasted with crushed rock, ten to twelve inchesof which is placed under the ties. The plan of what is known asthe University Ave. crossing, which is shown herewith, illustratesthe substantial character of the track construction. .An elevation of the track-oiling attachment for the tank car is shown herewith. Theflow of oil is controlled both by a valve on the tank car and alsoby a quick-acting gate valve just below the 4-in. union. About twomiles of single track can be oiled with a 6,500-gallon tank car. Oneof the illustrations shows the arrangement of tracks and pole line onthe pier. The overhead work is double bracket, center pole con-
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VIEWS OF CAR GATE AND BUFFER. 0.\KI.A.ND TRANSIT CONSOLIDATED. this construction is also shown from which it will be seen that thebearing rail is laid with its head touching that of the main or trackrail. The function of the former rail is to carry the false or outerflanges of bad or grooved wheels, as it prevents the battering which struction, and the ferry system tracks are 14 ft. from center tocenter. The power plant of the San Francisco, Oakland & San Jose Rail-way is equipped with eight soo-h. p. boilers fitted with oil burners. May 20, 1904.) STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. These boilers consume 2,500 gallons of oil each twenty-four hours.The generating room contains two direct-connected G. E. generators.The large unit consists of a 2.000-h. p. corliss compound engine, 295 were ordered from the St. Louis Car Co., the railway com-pany is constantly building new cars for its local traffic, turningout a new forty-foot city car with a capacity for 100 to 150 people. l^-E ^W t a lb KALEVI

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