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Title: The Street railway journal Year: 1884 (1880s) Authors: Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: s being 37 ft. 6 ins. The narrowestwidth of roadway on the route is 31 ft. The track is 4 ft. 7f-in. gage and is laid with a 6|-in.100-lb. grooved girder rail supplied by the Barrow, Hae- matite Iron & Steel Company. The base of the rail is6\ ins., and the portion built is laid in 45-ft. lengths,though 60-ft. lengths are now being employed. The fishplates are 24ms.in length,and have six i-in. bolts. Steel tiebars, 2 ins. x f in., are used, spaced every 7 ft. 6 ins. Therails rest on a concrete base 6 ins. thick, and are doublebonded with No. 4 B. & S. wire extending around the fishplate, and are cross-bonded every 135 ft. with wire of thesame size. The trolley wire is a No. 00 B. & S., and is carriedmostly by side suspension, although there are a few centerpoles. The poles were supplied by Morris, Tasker &Company, and have a length of 31 ft. and depth in theground of 6 ft. 6 ins. They will also be employed for elec-tric lighting. The brackets on the bracket poles are of

Text Appearing After Image: VIEW ON WEST NILE STREET wrought iron, are extremely ornamental, and the doublearms measure 11 ft. 6 ins. in length. Where the roadwayis very narrow, as in West Nile Street and ParliamentaryRoad, wall rosettes are used. The feeders are carried entirely under ground, and aretapped into the trolley wire every half mile. They weresupplied by Siemens Brothers. The power station is within a half mile of the northernterminus of the line at Springburn, and is a brick buildingwith temporary end wall of corrugated iron and measures,inside dimensions, 61 ft. x 36 ft. The chimney is of brick,100 ft. in height, and measures at the top 8 ft. outsidediameter, 5 ft. 8 ins. inside diameter, and at its base 12 ft.outside diameter and 6 ft. inside diameter. The boilerroom contains two Babcock & Wilcox boilers of 250 h.p.each. They have a heating surface of 2530 sq. ft. and agrate area of 51 sq. ft., and are equipped with Vicars au-tomatic stoers; Worthington condensers, and Blake-Knowles pumps are

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