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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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ombined passenger and baggage cars,and freight cars. The passenger cars are 40 feet long and a regularschedule speed of 30 miles per hour, including stops, is maintained. HIGH SPEED ELECTRIC IXTERURBAN RAILWAYS. 873 The power house contains two 400-kilowatt Westinghouse three-phasealternators and a sub-station contains a 200-kilowatt rotary converter.The long distance transmission is at 15,000 volts, the wires being car-ried on 45-foot pine poles set 6 feet in the ground and surrounded byconcrete so that no guy wires are necessary. The same poles supportthe double trolley wire. One of the oldest high-speed roads in America is the Detroit, Ypsil-anti & Ann Arbor Railway. As originally constructed this road had alength of 50 miles, 40 miles between Detroit and Ann Arbor with abranch line of 10 miles to Saline. The line has recently been consider-ably extended, now reaching to Jackson, Mich., where it connects withother interurban roads. Tt is composed of single track throughout. The
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IN.KklDKS OF ADVANCED TYPE TROLLEY CARS.The car above is the Ondiara, shown in exterior view at the bottom of page S67a 46-foot 35,000 pound car for the Chicago & Joliet Railway. It has a 14-smoking compartment and toilet room against tlie partition. Maxi-mum speed 70 miles per hour. , Below isfoot 874 THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. equipment consistsof 20 cars, eachprovided with four50-horse -powermotors and quick-acting air-brakes.The motors can allbe thrown in seriesfor slow speedthrough cities. Aregular half-hourservice is maintain-ed with an occa-sional 15-minuteservice, and all carsare dispatched bytelephone, tele-phone stations be-ing located at turn-outs. The most re-markable effect ofthis road has beenthe development ofan enormous pas-senger traffic. Dur-ing the first year4,000 passengerswere carried per day, against 200 previously carried per day by thesteam road passing through the same towns. The fare for 40 miles is50 cents, while the fare charged by the steam roads for th

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