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Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Buffalo and North Tonawanda, anda mile of track in Buffalo, making the total length of the line at pres-ent 29 miles and giving through service from Buffalo to Lockport andNiagara Falls. Power is obtained from the Niagara Falls Power Co.,and is transmitted at 10,500 volts to a rotary converter sub-stationlocated at Lockport, from which it is fed as direct current at 1,500 voltsto the trolley wires. Both passenger and freight traffic are handled,trolley cars being used for the passenger service and two electric loco-motives, built by the General Electric Co., for the freight service.These locomotives weigh 36 tons each. Since the road is a feeder ofthe Erie Railway system, the freight traffic is considerable and the lo-comotives are each equipped with four i6o-horse-power motors, de-signed to give a draw-bar pull of 3,400 pounds when running at 15miles per hour, which is considered sufficient to handle a 340-ton train.The locomotive trolleys are controlled from the cab bv means of a I
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TYPES OF MODERN AMERICAN CARS FOR HEAVY ELECTRIC-RAILWAY SERVICE.At the top is a 40-foot express car, weighing 25,000 pounds, open from end to end for load;diagonal doors to take in long pieces; speed 33 miles. Next comes a 40-foot trolley carwith baggage compartment. Providence & Fall River branch of N. Y., N. H. & H.Ry.; weighs 45,000 pounds; seats 28 passengers. Below that is a 41-foot 25,000-pound car with 9-foot smoking compartment, intended for average speed of20 miles. At the bottom is a semi-convertible parlor trolley car for theBuffalo railway, 41 feet 8 inches long, 31,000 pounds. All by theJ. G. Brill Company. 867 THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE.

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