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Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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m these staff meetings. Change of Name.The San Pedro, Los Angeles & SaltLake Railroad Company has changedits name to that of Los Angeles & SaltLake Railroad Company. The designa-tion used in tariffs, circulars, advertis-ing matters, tickets and other matter ofa general kind will continue as for-merly to be known as the Salt LakeRoute. October, 1916. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 327 Oakland, Anlioch and Eastern Car Ferry Ramon Heavy Traffic Hanilled by Electric F^ciuipinenl. Gasoline Used for Propelling theFerry and Generating Current for Overhea<i Trolley Wire on the Boat ?r» .Seven electric trains run daily betweenOaUIand and Sacramento, Cal., on theOakland, Antioch and Eastern railway,which witli two seven mile branches, oneto .\iitioch and tlie other to Danville, feet long, and weighs 590 tons. It isdriven by a 600 horse power, eight cylin-der, gasoline engine of the electric igni-tion type, and usually carries six loadedpassenger cars or eii;hi freight cars. The
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SIX HUNDRED HORSE PuWEK, EIGHT CYLINDER GASOLINE ENGINE. CAR IERRY,OAKLAND, AXTIOCH AM) EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. make a total ot l.-.O mi)es. In crossingSuisun Bay, the railway transports itstrains across the bay from Bay Point toChipps Island. A bridge 10,000 feet longand 70 feet higli will br constructed ovcr engine is said to be the largest of its kindever built, weighing appro.ximately 120.- 000 pounds. It is set amidships and iscoupled to a propeller at eacli end through 1 istoii clutches. Tlic two propellers arc date nine cars. As will be noted in theillustration, there is an overhead catenaryconstruction so that the trains are ableto run off the ferry under their ownpower. On t!ie railroad the trains are hauledliy high speed electric locomotives. Alltlie electrical equipment, including thatfor cars, locomotives, sub-stations andline material, were furnished by the Wes-tinghouse Electric & Mfg. Company, ofICast Pittsburgh, Pa. The railway oper-ates eighteen standard motor pa

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