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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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house at Fremont,about the middle of the line, contains four alternating-current gen-erators, direct connected to 1,750-horse-power Westinghouse steamengines. Current is transmitted at 16,000 volts to six sub-stations,-which are combined with passenger and freight stations in order to cutdown the cost of attendance. The high-tension transmission wires arecarried upon the poles supporting the trolley brackets. The roadbed,partly upon private right erf way and partly upon public turnpike, isconstructed for speeds exceeding 40 miles per hour. In preparing fora through service between Cleveland and Toledo, a series of experi-ments are being made by the Lake Shore Electric Company with a view•of determining the most desirable motors for the traffic. A cross-coun-try schedule of 35 to 40 miles per hour has been established and aspeed of over 60 miles per hour has been maintained for short dis-tances. Some of the cars are fitted with four loo-horse-power elec- 872 THE ENGINEERIXG MAGAZINE.
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THE UPPER CAR IS FOR THE PACIFIC ELECTRIC RAILWAY, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. ; THELOWER ONE IS A MOTOR CAR FOR THE UNION TRACTION COMPANY OF INDIANA.St. Louis Car Company, St. Louis, Mo. trie motors. The ears now in serviee on the Toledo, Fremont &Norwalk are equipped with 75-horse-power Westinghouse motors.That part of the Lake Shore Electric Companys line between Cleve-land and Norwalk is entirely on private right of way and is rock-bal-lasted and laid with 75-pound T-rails. This company is making anespecial effort to develop freight traffic in fruit and dairy products.Passenger mileage books are sold for $12.50 per 1,000 miles, and localfares are about one-half of those charged jjy steam roads. Toledo and Detroit are connected by a series of electric roads, oneof the most completely ec(uipped of which is the Toledo & MonroeRailway, having 18 miles of single track laid with 70-pound T-railsand ballasted with broken limestone. The ecjuipment consists of ordi-nary passenger cars, ch

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