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Identifier: cassiersmagaz401911newy (find matches)
Title: Cassier's magazine
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering
Publisher: New York Cassier Magazine Co.
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tobe said in favour of these suspendedrailway systems, either in conjunctionwith, or in place of, a surface sys- tem. On the score of expense theremay be advantage, and in some casesthe gain in this respect may be con-siderable; but probably the principaladvantages are : (i) That the contourof the ground does not require con-sideration in laying out the system,except, of course, as regards varyingheights of the overhead rail supportson uneven ground; (2) the groundsurface is quite clear of rails or ob-structions; (3) the suspended vehiclescan be carried at such a height thatthere is no interference with trafficon ground level; (4) the vehicles canbe adapted to travel over machines,hoppers, stoves, railway tracks, build-ings, and even through openings highup in the walls of buildings, withoutinterfering with operations below,and in a way that would be nearly 1 %&* f !_ i JKL W. - /M _,;; It/* ~T :, ..t VOfew .:- J 498 COMPLETE SUSPENDED TRAIN AT WORK SUSPENDED ELECTRIC RAILWAYS 499
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LOCOMOTIVE OF 25 HORSE-POWER USED ON OVERHEAD ELECTRIC RAILWAYS impossible with an ordinary two-railrailway system; (5) the vehicles canbe provided with raising and lower-ing gear, and with tipping and empty-ing mechanism, so that they needonly be brought into the requiredposition, raised or lowered to receiveor deliver a load, or tipped or other-wise emptied into hoppers, storebuildings, furnaces, kilns and the like from overhead; and (6) thetracks can be supported from build-ings, constructural iron work, orspecial supports, and carried aroundbuildings, machines, furnaces, and, infact, wherever and however required,with severe curves and gradients tomeet almost any requirements. In practice any or all of these ad-vantages may be realized, but, as a 5oo CASSIERS MAGAZINE

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