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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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FRUITPORT POWER HOUSE, G. -R., G. H. & M. RY. FIVE 25O-KILOWATT WESTINGHOUSE GENERATORS.The exterior view above shows arrangements for unloading coal. HIGH SPEED ELECTRIC INTERURBAN RAILWAYS. 865 plant embodies coal-handling apparatus, mechanical stokers, econ-omizers, and forced draught. The two engines are of the verticalcross-compound condensing type and are direct connected to 500 kilo-watt, three-phase, twenty-five-cycle alternators. The sub-stations atvarious points on the road are supplied with alternating current trans-mitted at 20,000 volts over aluminum conductors. The transmissionlines are carried upon the poles supporting the trolley wire, the wholebeing protected from lightning discharges by a strand of barbed wirestrung at the tops of the poles and grounded at each sixth pole to gal-vanized-iron pipes driven 12 feet into the ground. The cars are 47
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SUB-STATION, G. R., G. H. & M. KV., SHOWING THIRD-RAIL CONSTRUCTION. feet long and weigh from 2t^ to 25 tons without load. They are com-pletely equipped with heaters, air brakes, sand boxes, etc. The com-pany has recently ordered a number of 50-foot cars and a number of35-foot freight cars will be operated. The freight rates are low, rang-ing from 3^ to 23 cents per hundred pounds, depending upon a dis-tance-rate basis and classification. The express rates vary from 20cents for a package weighing not more than 10 pounds to 45 cents forpackages weighing from 50 to 100 pounds, above which the rate is 45cents per hundred. The franchise calls for rates not exceeding i>^cents per mile for carrying passengers, but as the steam road parallel-ing the electric line has greatly reduced its fares since the buildingof the latter, the electric road has made special rates during certain 866 THE ENGINEERING MAGAZINE. hours of the day when the steam-road trains are in operation be-tween the te

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